The desire to live longer and healthier lives drives longevity medicine. This new practice seeks to extend people’s health spans—the time of life lived in peak health—by using evidence-based strategies to slow or even reverse aging and reduce age-related deterioration. Through therapies and consultations, our plastic surgeon teaches patients how longevity medicine can help them look and feel their youngest.
To learn more, PHASE Plastic Surgery’s Longevity Medicine FAQs: What Patients Should Know contains a few of the most popular longevity medicine queries and responses.
What Is Longevity Medicine?
Patients should understand that longevity medicine is a healing practice that optimizes, prevents, and applies advanced therapies to reverse or postpone their biological aging processes. In contrast to medicine that attempts to cure a disease that has already developed, longevity medicine attempts to preserve the body before issues emerge.
What Does Longevity Medicine Involve?
This approach integrates lifestyle interventions with advanced medical therapies designed to help patients live longer. These treatments include:
- Comprehensive testing: Assessing your biological age, laboratory markers, and genetic predisposition
- Planning for physical fitness and diet: Customized methods for stimulating your vitality and long-term health
- Targeted therapies: Therapeutic plasma exchange, peptide therapies, and hormone optimization therapies
- Advanced monitoring: Ongoing monitoring of your biomarkers to guide improvements over time
At PHASE Plastic Surgery, our longevity medicine program helps patients take proactive steps to live longer, healthier lives.
How Is Your Biological Age Calculated?
One of longevity medicine’s greatest strengths is measuring patients’ biological age—which may differ from chronological age—and providing insights into your body’s vitality. Methods used to assess this include biomarkers in the bloodstream, fitness analyses, and epigenetic panels that examine DNA methylation. They provide a measurable sense of how quickly your body is aging internally, beyond merely counting the years you have lived.
Who Can Benefit From Longevity Medicine?
Longevity medicine is ideal for anyone who wants to take a proactive approach to their health, especially if you are interested in:
- Preserving vitality and vigor
- Adding years to your quality of life
- Lowering the risk of disease in old age
- Enhancing skin, heart, and brain well-being
Although middle-aged and elderly patients frequently desire this treatment, younger people are also interested in learning more about preventive medicine that can increase their life expectancy.
Is Longevity Medicine Safe?
Safety and evidence are the focus of every procedure at PHASE Plastic Surgery. Treatments such as therapeutic plasma exchange are validated with clinical evidence of improvements in patients’ biological signs of aging (Fuentealba et al., 2024). Since longevity medicine is personalized for each patient, therapeutic interventions depend on medical background, objectives, and demonstrated efficacy.
Contact PHASE Plastic Surgery To Learn More About Longevity Medicine
Do you desire more vitality, wish to reduce your likelihood of diseases associated with age, or want to learn more about anti-aging treatments to reverse your biological age? While reading our Longevity Medicine FAQs: What Patients Should Know is a good starting point, the PHASE Plastic Surgery team is here to help you take the next step forward. Contact us today to learn more about treatment options for a healthier, longer life.
