it’s your healthspan that matters, not your lifespan
Chronic and lifestyle-related conditions now account for a staggering 70% of deaths worldwide. With changing lifestyles and an ageing population, this figure will only increase.
Paradoxically even as we’re living longer we’re not necessarily living healthier, and many people dread growing old but being unable to fully enjoy those extra years. While modern medicine has seen stunning advances in disease management, there has been far less emphasis on maintaining functionality and what we now call the” healthspan” - years lived fully and completely for as long as possible in an active healthy manner.
Many disease processes start years before they’re diagnosed, when it may be too late to successfully reverse their profound effects upon the body. Conditions such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, disorders of sleep, chronic respiratory disease and even cancer not only share common lifestyle factors, they are silent age accelerators making us biologically older than our chronological age.
“LONGEVITY MEDICINE IS A PARADIGM SHIFT IN HEALTHCARE THAT EVALUATES EVERY PATIENT INDIVIDUALLY AND DELIVERS A PERSONALISED PROTOCOL THAT provides A science-based, customised BLUEPRINT FOR living your best life - at any age.”
Longevity Medicine represents a shift in mindset away from the older model of ‘disease process’ management, to one that recognises the myriad effects that our environment has on our genetic code and therefore our health and longevity. Instead of being a “one size fits all” approach, our approach is precision-tailored to your individual needs and takes into account your individual genetic makeup as well as the countless epigenetic (external) factors which have shaped you, including what and when you eat, your exposure to acute and chronic stress, environmental and other toxins including pollution, and even your sleep patterns.
This new approach not only seeks to understand your unique “health profile”, it gives you the tools you need for engagement, efficacy and empowerment so that you are able to maintain and continue your journey towards your life - lived better.
“Lifestyle medicine is both a scientific discipline, and a movement for change”
— Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine