The anti-aging movement is a social movement devoted to eliminating or
reversing aging, or reducing the effects of it. A substantial portion
of the attention of the movement is on the possibilities for life
extension, but there is also interest in techniques such as cosmetic
surgery which ameliorate the effects of aging rather than delay or
defeat it.Two popular proponents of the anti-aging movement include
Ray Kurzweil, who says humanity can defeat aging through the advance
of technology, and Aubrey De Grey, who says that the human body is a
very complicated machine and, thus, can be repaired indefinitely.
Other scientists and significant contributors to the movement include
molecular biologists, geneticists, and biomedical gerontologists such
as Gary Ruvkun, Cynthia Kenyon, and Arthur D. Levinson. However,
figures in the gerontology community in 2003 tried to distance their
research from the perceived pseudoscience of the movement.Anti-aging
medicine has become a budding and rapidly growing medical specialty as
physicians who initially sought treatment for themselves have received
training and certification in its practice by organizations such as
the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) co-founded by Dr
Robert M. Goldman and Ronald Klatz.Central to anti-aging medicine is
administration of human growth hormone. Clinical studies have shown
that low-dose growth hormone (GH) treatment for adults with GH
deficiency changes the body composition by increasing muscle mass,
decreasing fat mass, and increasing bone density and muscle strength.
It also improves cardiovascular parameters (i.e. decrease of LDL
cholesterol) and affects the quality of life without significant side
effects. However, it is also said to have potentially dangerous
side-effects when used in injectable form, if proper protocols are not
followed. It is not approved for use in healthy aging patients, though
many have been using it for this reason for decades now. That
restriction is sidestepped by means of a diagnosis of some injury,
organic condition, or adult growth hormone deficiency which supposedly
has resulted in reduced secretion of the hormone.
reversing aging, or reducing the effects of it. A substantial portion
of the attention of the movement is on the possibilities for life
extension, but there is also interest in techniques such as cosmetic
surgery which ameliorate the effects of aging rather than delay or
defeat it.Two popular proponents of the anti-aging movement include
Ray Kurzweil, who says humanity can defeat aging through the advance
of technology, and Aubrey De Grey, who says that the human body is a
very complicated machine and, thus, can be repaired indefinitely.
Other scientists and significant contributors to the movement include
molecular biologists, geneticists, and biomedical gerontologists such
as Gary Ruvkun, Cynthia Kenyon, and Arthur D. Levinson. However,
figures in the gerontology community in 2003 tried to distance their
research from the perceived pseudoscience of the movement.Anti-aging
medicine has become a budding and rapidly growing medical specialty as
physicians who initially sought treatment for themselves have received
training and certification in its practice by organizations such as
the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) co-founded by Dr
Robert M. Goldman and Ronald Klatz.Central to anti-aging medicine is
administration of human growth hormone. Clinical studies have shown
that low-dose growth hormone (GH) treatment for adults with GH
deficiency changes the body composition by increasing muscle mass,
decreasing fat mass, and increasing bone density and muscle strength.
It also improves cardiovascular parameters (i.e. decrease of LDL
cholesterol) and affects the quality of life without significant side
effects. However, it is also said to have potentially dangerous
side-effects when used in injectable form, if proper protocols are not
followed. It is not approved for use in healthy aging patients, though
many have been using it for this reason for decades now. That
restriction is sidestepped by means of a diagnosis of some injury,
organic condition, or adult growth hormone deficiency which supposedly
has resulted in reduced secretion of the hormone.
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