ANTI-AGING IS A MEDICAL SPECIALTY FOUNDED The Role of Medical Spas in the Longevity Movement: An Introduction to the Anti-Aging Medical Specialty by Ronald Klatz, MD, DO and Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP AUTHOR BYLINE: Ronald Klatz, MD, DO coined the term "anti-aging medicine" and is a world recognized authority on preventive medicine and advanced biomedical technologies. Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP, is Chairman of the International Medical Commission and a former world champion athlete with over 20 world strength records. In 1992, Drs. Klatz and Goldman co-founded the American Academy of AntiAging Medicine (A4M; www.worldhealth.net), and serve as its President and Chairman, respectively. The Synergy Between Medical Spas & Anti-Aging Medicine Anti-aging medicine is a medical specialty founded on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases. It is a healthcare model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the healthy lifespan in humans. As such, anti-aging medicine is based on principles of sound and responsible medical care that are consistent with those applied in other preventive health specialties. The goal of antiaging medicine is not to merely maximize the total possible years of an individual's life, but to ensure that those years are enjoyed in a productive, healthy, and vital fashion. Anti-aging medicine focuses on the application of high-tech diagnostic and treatment biomedical technologies for the very earliest detection and most aggressive care of metabolic disorders and disease, the concept being that by maintaining youthful metabolism we may delay and prevent aging-related disease. Today, mature adults control more than $7 trillion in wealth in the United States [Harvard Business Review, March 2004], or 70% of all US wealth. Further, they bring in $2 trillion in annual income and account for 50% of all discretionary spending." [Associated Press, March 7, 2004]. Baby Boomers, the first of whom turn age 60 this year, drive much of the anti-aging and medical spa markets. Fully intent on maintaining physical fitness, mental acuity, and a productive, robust lifestyle for as long as possible, the Baby Boomer generation is responsible for fueling a burgeoning marketplace for anti-aging products and services. The U.S. anti-aging marketplace, valued at $45.5 billion (2004), is growing at an annual growth rate of 9.5%, and projected to reach $72 billion by 2009. [Business Communications Company, Inc., February 2005] Like the anti-aging industry, the medical spa industry has also experienced rapid and steady growth due in large part to the shift in demographics of the American population. According to the International SPA Association, between 2002 and 2004, the medical spa segment expanded faster than any other segment of the spa industry, with the number of medical spas growing by 109% compared to 26% for the U.S. spa industry as a whole. In addition, ISPA cites that "there is a 'revolution' in cosmetic procedures and consumers can 'look better without the need for cosmetic surgery," resulting in the steady upwards sales "trend towards medically-based products." ["The ISPA 2004 Spa Industry Study-Executive Summary," Nov. 15, 2004.].
ON THE APPLICATION OF ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES A review of leading anti-aging related products and services that are offered in medical spas underscores the synergy between medical spas and anti-aging medicine: • Nearly 90 million American consumers use, or have used, products or procedures in an attempt to reduce the visible signs of aging. "If they had their way, Americans would prefer to look younger than they actually are," because "a youthful appearance is an important factor for professional success … and personal happiness." [National Consumers League survey, May 2004]. • The U.S. market for cosmeceuticals - supplements that target skin health and beauty - is valued at $12.4 billion and is expected to reach $16 billion by 2010. In addition, skincare products dominate the retail market, controlling 52% of retail sales and worth $6.4 billion in 2004. [MarketResearch.com, January 2005.] • In 2003, 9 million Americans underwent procedures to look younger or enhance their personal appearance [MarketResearch.com, January 2005]. • Demand in 2005 for minimally invasive cosmetic procedures jumped by 53% since 2000, with a total of 8.4 million procedures performed [American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2006]. Aesthetics in the Anti-Aging Medical Practice According to a USA Today/ABC News poll [conducted the week of Oct. 12, 2005 and reported by USA Today, Oct. 17, 2005], Americans are worried about these specific quality of life issues as they get older: • Losing their health (73%) • Losing the ability to take care of oneself (70%) • Losing mental abilities (69%) • Being a burden on their family (54%) • Losing their looks (22%) The public can find answers to these aging-related health concerns at both medical spas and anti-aging medical practices. Anti-aging physicians, that is - clinical specialists who generally devote 70% or more of their practices specifically to the early detection, prevention, treatment, and amelioration of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases - offer a vast array of diagnostics, interventions, and therapeutics in categories such as: • Anti-Aging Endocrinology & Hormone Replacement Therapy • Antioxidant Analysis & Optimized Supplementation • Maximized Immune Function • Detoxification • Cardiovascular Protection • Cognitive Function Assessment & Repair • Metabolic & DNA Repair • Skin De-Aging & Repair • Lifestyle Modification • Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation-Sports Medicine-Conditioning • Biomarkers of Aging Assessment • Prospective Advanced Diagnostics [such as gene single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)] Many anti-aging medical practices, in addition to providing the above approaches that aim to improve the healthy human lifespan, also now offer non-invasive and minimally invasive cosmetic/aesthetic services, which may include: • Botox® (3.8 million procedures performed in 2005*) • Chemical peels (1 million in 2005*)
ANTI-AGING MEDICINE IS A MEDICAL SPECIALTY FOR THE • Microdermabrasion (838,000 in 2005*) • Laser hair removal (783,000 in 2005*) • Sclerotherapy (590,000 in 2005*) [*Data by American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2006.] Like medical spas • which pair the features of a cosmetic surgery office with those of a European day spa, plus staffing by a medical doctor, the latest iteration of the anti-aging medical practice offers cosmetic/aesthetic products and services. In this regard, these cutting-edge anti-aging medical practices seek to improve their patients' health, wellness, and longevity from the inside-out, while beneficially impacting their outward appearance to match the newfound vitality and vigor that comes with a successful anti-aging regimen. Validation of the Anti-Aging Medical Specialty The notion of "anti-aging medicine" and its primary principle - the ongoing extension of the healthy human lifepan - is validated by numerous prestigious scientific experts: Dr. Jim Oeppen of Cambridge University (UK) and Dr. James Vaupel of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany) have observed that maximum life expectancy has risen by a quarter of a year, each year, for the past 160 years. In Science, Oeppen and Vaupel write: "If life expectancy were close to a maximum, then the increase in the record expectation of life should be slowing. It is not.” They predict that the top life expectancy will continue to increase by 2.5 years each decade, thus meaning that the world’s top average life expectancy should reach 100 within the next 50 years. ["Broken Limits to Life Expectancy,” Science, May 10, 2002, 296 (5570), pp. 1029-1031.] A year later, Dr. Vaupel further wrote that “The number of centenarians in many industrialized nations is doubling every decade," with a result that “The average lifespan in industrialized countries in 2150 will be 122.5 years." Similarly, demographer Ronald Lee of the University of California/ Berkeley expects a continued “linear increase in life expectancy, extrapolating to a 25year gain every century." [Wright K, “Staying alive,” Discover, vol 24 no. 11, Nov. 2003.] Dr. Valter Longo and colleagues at University of Southern California reported that animal research on longevity is very near its transference to human application. Dr. Longo remarks that viable techniques to extend the human lifespan by 20 years of more could be "standard procedure 30 or 40 years down the road," but by prompting "as many people as possible to get into this novel way of looking at disease prevention, anti-aging drugs could be available in the next ten years." [Science magazine, February 28, 2003] The United Nations has declared that there is “No Limit is set on the increase of life expectancy” [“World Population in 2300”: Report ESA/P/WP.187/Rev.1, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division, 24 March 2004]. By 2300, life expectancies around the world's major regions will reach record highs: Western Europe, 106 years; Latin America/Caribbean, 98 years; Asia, 96 years; Africa, 92 years. In Japan, life expectancy in 2300 is expected to reach 108 years for females, 104 for males. Concludes the UN: "By 2300, female life expectancies of 100 years or higher are projected for 51 countries; male life expectancies of 100+ are projected for 17 countries."
EARLY DETECTION PREVENTION TREATMENT AND REVERSAL OF AGE - RELATED DYSFUNCTION, DISORDERS, AND DISEASES Most recently, in February 2006, Dr. Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University (USA) reported to the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science, that "…[W]e are on the brink of being able to extend human lifespan significantly, because we've got most of the technologies we need to do it." Dr. Tuljapurkar estimates that between 2010 and 2030, the modal, or most common, age of death will increase 20 years if anti-aging therapies come into widespread use. This projected increase consequently increases the modal age of death in industrialized countries from 80 years, to stand at 100." Anti-aging medicine is now practiced by thousands of physicians in private medical offices, as well as at some of the most prestigious teaching hospitals around the world. Universally, those involved in healthcare, or those whose fields of expertise intersect with healthcare issues, support anti-aging medicine as a healthcare model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the healthy human lifespan. Public policy organizations and government agencies are now embracing anti-aging medicine as a viable solution to alleviate the mounting social, economic, and medical woes otherwise anticipated to arrive with the aging of nearly every nation on the planet. The Exponential Growth of the Anti-Aging Specialty Origins of the Anti-Aging Medical Specialty The origins of the anti-aging medical specialty can be traced directly to its two founding physicians, Ronald Klatz, MD, DO and Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP. In August 1992, a dozen physicians convened in Chicago to discuss scientific breakthroughs making major inroads in identifying the mechanisms of deterioration and vulnerability to age-related diseases. These medical pioneers, led by Dr. Klatz and Dr. Goldman, introduced a new definition of aging. In this new perspective, the frailties and physical and mental failures associated with normal aging are caused by physiological dysfunctions that, in many cases, can be altered by appropriate medical interventions. As an extension of this redefinition, Drs. Klatz and Goldman proposed an innovative model for healthcare that focused on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases. "Anti-aging medicine" was born, and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) was established. Profile of Ronald Klatz, MD, DO Ronald Klatz, MD, DO, originated the term "anti-aging" and regarded as the movement's first physician and chief champion. In an Online Extra to the BusinessWeek March 2006 issue, Dr. Klatz is hailed as a "leading light in the anti-aging medical movement." An ardent supporter of healthcare freedoms and the continuation of a broad platform supporting scientific innovation, Dr. Klatz explains: "History is replete with examples of medical pioneers whose innovations and foresight were trivialized, ignored, challenged, or violently opposed by the establishment, only to ultimately become accepted by society at-large. Leopold Auenbrugger was ridiculed for percussing and auscultating his patients' chests; Ignaz Semmelweiss' recommendation for doctors to wash their hands before each patient landed him in a mental asylum. More recently, cardiologists denied Nathan Pritikin PhD's program for dietary modification to modulate cardiovascular risk until after his death; in 2005 -23 years after discovering the role of H. pylori bacteria gastritis and peptic ulcer disease Barry Marshall and Robin Warren are at last recognized for their efforts with the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Given time and
ANTI-AGING MEDICINE IS A HEALTHCARE MODEL PROMOTING INNOVATIVE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH objective, undeniable evidence, scientific truths are ultimately borne out. In the words of Dr. Augenbrugger, 'It has always been the fate of those who have illustrated the arts and sciences by their discoveries to be beset by envy, malice, hatred, destruction, and calumny.'" Dr. Klatz is also a best-selling author: Grow Young with HGH (HarperCollins, 1997) is credited with making "anti-aging" a household phrase. The dozens of books that Dr. Klatz has authored, which total over 2 million copies in print, further serve to underscore the anti-aging concept. Observes Dr. Klatz: "We are now "ushering in a new reality … in which 75 years old may well be considered middle age. We need only bridge the gap between the medical knowledge of today and the medical knowledge that we will have in our grasp by the year 2029. In that medical knowledge doubles every 3.5 years or less, by 2029, we will know at least 256 times more than we know today. As a result, it is not impracticable nor improbable to expect that humankind will reach the point where we'll know how to substantially slow or perhaps even stop aging, and even eventually reset the clock mechanism of life itself. By the year 2029, we anticipate that science will accomplish practical immortality • healthy human lifespans of 150 years and beyond." In Dr. Klatz's Model of Practical Immortality, we may consider the years from 2006 through 2029 collectively as a "Bridge to Practical Immortality," during which science will amass key knowledge in biomedical technologies that will enable 150+ year-long lifespans:
TO PROLONG THE HEALTHY LIFESPAM IN HUMANS awarded the Gold Medal in Science for Brain Resuscitation Technology (1993) and the Grand Prize in Medicine for Brain Cooling Technology (1994). In addition, Dr. Klatz has been named as a Top 10 Medical Innovator in Biomedical Technology (1997) by the National Institute of Electromedical Information, and received the Ground Breaker Award in Health Care (1999) with Presidential Acknowledgment by US President William Jefferson Clinton from Transitional Services of New York. With his extensive credentials as a physician, scientific innovator, and visionary, BusinessWeek March 2006 aptly refers to Dr. Klatz as "The Guru of Anti-Aging." Profile of Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP A black belt in karate, Chinese weapons expert, and world champion athlete with over 20 world strength records, Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. This year, Dr. Goldman was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame. In 2001, Excellency Juan Antonio Aamaranch awarded Dr. Goldman the international Olympic Committee tribute diploma for contributions to the development of sport and Olympism. Dr. Goldman has served as a Senior Fellow at the Lincoln Filene Center, Tufts University, and as an Affiliate at the Philosophy of Education Research Center, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. Dr. Goldman is a Clinical Consultant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Korea Medical University, and Professor, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Central America Health Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine. He co-founded and serves as Chairman of the Board of Life Science Holdings, a biomedical research company which has had over 150 medical patents under development in the areas of brain resuscitation, trauma and emergency medicine, organ transplant and blood preservation technologies. He has overseen cooperative research agreement development programs in conjunction with such prominent institutions as the American National Red Cross, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense, and the FDA's Center for Devices & Radiological Health.
As a respected futurist in the field of advanced biotechnologies, Dr. Klatz submits that "the leading causes of death could be eliminated in the immediate future, were an all-out scientific effort mounted and the politics of disease-based medicine restrained." As such, he predicts the following timetable for major medical breakthroughs during the period he calls the "Bridge to Practical Immortality": • Heart Disease: Eliminated 2016 • Cancer: Eliminated 2021 • Diabetes: Eliminated 2017 • Alzheimer’s Disease: Eliminated 2015 • AIDS & Infectious Disease: Eliminated 2025 Recommends Dr. Klatz: "Before the eradication of the diseases of aging and the year 2029, we can rely on the expertise and experience of anti-aging physicians to usher us across the Bridge to Practical Immortality." Dr. Klatz is a long-time scientific pioneer and innovator. He is the inventor, developer, or administrator of 100-plus scientific patents. The originator of the concept for brain resuscitation, Dr. Klatz was
Dr. Goldman is the recipient of the Humanitarian Award (1995), the Business Development Award (1996) and co-recipient with Dr. Klatz of the Gold Medal for Science and Grand Prize for Medicine (l994).Dr. Goldman is Chairman of the International Medical Commission overseeing sports medicine committees in over 179 nations. Dr. Goldman's perspective of anti-aging medicine considers the specialty to be the next generation of sports medicine. Explains Dr. Goldman: "In sports medicine, physicians aim to keep athletes in peak physical and mental condition, to maximize their performance in competition. Anti-aging medicine seeks to keep people, as they age, in top physical and mental shape." In meeting Dr. Goldman, you'd find he walks the walk, as he has a biological age a good 12 years less than his chronological age. He represents the anti-aging medical movement well, as he is physically fit and mentally sharp.
ANTI-AGING MEDICINE IS BASED ON PRINCIPLES OF SOUND AND RESPONSIBLE MEDICAL CARE
THAT ARE CONSISTANT WITH THOSE APPLIED IN OTHER PREVENTIVE HEALTH SPECIALTIES
World Records Held by Dr. Goldman
Dr. Goldman (USA), World Chairman IFBB Medical Commission, receives the IFBB's highest award - the IFBB Gold Order, at the World Championships in Shanghai, China, 2005 Shown here with Dr Rafael Santonja (Spain) past President of the Olympic Weight Lifting Federation of Spain, and Prof. Dr. Eduardo H. De Rose (Brazil), of the International Olympic Medical Commission.
World Record 321 Consecutive Handstand Pushups
World Record 50-Yard Handstand Sprint Trial
Dr. Goldman (right) with friend Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (left). Dr. Goldman served as Special Advisor to the President's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports under Gov Schwarzenegger's Chairmanship of the Council.
Dr. Goldman travels to more than 40 nations a year with the specific objective to raise the awareness in, and increase the adoption of, anti-aging medicine. Frequent trips overseas have instituted a number of initiatives that promote innovative approaches to address the swelling aging population in nations around the world. Explains Dr. Goldman: "In expanding the reach of anti-aging medicine, A4M adopts the Olympic model for global expansion. We aim to develop strong international partnerships with individuals placed in prominent positions in their respective nation's medical commissions, governmental bodies including the Medical Commission of the European Parliament, and academic and research-based affiliates and universities. In doing so, we have garnered strong participation among nations in Europe and Asia, as well as in South and Central America, and Canada. Today, 15% of A4M's membership hails from outside US borders." Biotech Pioneers Drs. Klatz and Goldman Tireless leaders, Drs. Klatz and Goldman have spearheaded a number of life-saving and life-improving projects in addition to founding and leading the A4M. They are co-founders of Organ Recovery Systems (www.organ-recovery.com), a company that develops technologies to improve the quality and quantity of organs for transplantation. Organ Recovery Systems markets LifePort, a family of devices that significantly improves the viability of organs ex vivo. Recognized for excellence in design by various organizations including Popular Science, the LifePort Kidney Transporter is now in routine use worldwide. The device is responsible for more than 3,000 successful kidney transplants to-date, and LifePort technology is now being developed for application for human heart and liver transplants.
World Record 161 Consecutive Overhead Extension One-Arm Pushups
One-Arm Handstand Pushup
Dr. Goldman, President's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports
ANTI-AGING MEDICINE GOAL IS TO ENSURE THAT TOTAL POSSIBLE YEARS OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S LIFE
ARE ENJOYED IN A PRODUCTIVE, HEALTHY & VITAL FASHION
Drs. Klatz and Goldman also co-founded the National Academy of Sports Medicine (www.nasm.org), the global leader in certification, continuing education, solutions and tools for the health, fitness, sports performance and sports medicine professionals. Today NASM serves more than 100,000 members in 80 countries. The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M; www.worldhealth.net) is the world's leading non-profit educational medical organization dedicated to the scientific premise that diseases and disabilities of human aging are largely preventable, treatable, and perhaps even reversible. A4M serves as an advocate for the new clinical specialty of anti-aging medical science and acts as a conduit to physicians, scientists, and the educated public who wish to benefit from the almost daily breakthroughs in biotechnology which promise both a greater quality as well as quantity of life. The A4M is the: • First to create the anti-aging medical movement. • Founder of the world’s fastest-growing medical specialty. • Foremost academic leader in a $50 billion marketplace. In 2005, membership in the A4M numbered 17,500, the majority of whom are physicians, scientists, researchers, and health practitioners. Of these health professionals, A4M represents a vast array of medical subspecialties: On the success of A4M and the anti-aging medical movement, Dr. Klatz refers us to a quote from Max Planck (1848-1947), German physicist and Nobel Laureate: “An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents … its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.” World Renowned Scientific Conferences in Anti-Aging Medicine
Today worldwide, A4M estimates that there are more than 50,000 anti-aging physicians in nearly 100 nations. Dr. Klatz observes that: "Singlehandedly, A4M has been largely responsible for the shift in the very basic conceptions regarding human aging. Before A4M, notions of extending the healthy human lifespan were dismissed as unsupported and unscientific. Prior to A4M's founding in 1992, scientists who pursued approaches to reverse or halt the process of human aging risked loss of funding, while physicians doing the same risked forfeit of academic positions or censure." Since its inception in 1992, when A4M consisted of 12 founding members, the organization has experienced unprecedented exponential growth. In 22006 (projected), it will represent 18,500 members in 90 nations. This is a direct result of the mainstreaming of anti-aging medicine.
The Annual International Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine, recognized as the world's premier scientific events on topics relating to medical interventions to prevent and treat the diseases and disabilities associated with the biological process of aging, is co-sponsored by the A4M. The Congress Sessions are approved for AMA Category 1 credits for physicians by The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). The Annual International Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine program includes didactic lectures, panel discussions, and live demonstrations. Physicians attending the Annual International Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine may qualify to receive Continuing Medical Education (CME) Category 1 credits that accrue towards the American Medical Association's (AMA) Physician Recognition Award (PRA).
ANTI-AGING INDUSTRY AND THE MEDICAL SPA INDUSTRY HAS EXPERIENCED RAPID & STEADY GROWTH Comments Dr. Ronald Klatz, A4M founder and President: "A4M's Annual Congresses set the bar high for excellence of information shared in this field. We've seen a major increase in interest in medical spas by our attendees, and as a result the Congress Sessions now integrate major 'how-to' presentations on topics such as in-office aesthetic procedures, marketing aesthetic services, and starting-up a medical spa." Adds Dr. Robert Goldman, A4M Chairman: "Our world renowned physician and scientific faculty cater to our knowledge-seeking delegates, offering the very latest in research and clinical findings on cuttingedge topics relating to human longevity."
Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP, welcomes participants to the Spring 2006 Session of the 14th Annual International Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine
DUE IN LARGE PART TO THE SHIFT IN DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN POPULATION • December 7-12, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada • projected attendance, 6,000 physicians • April 26-28, 2007: Orlando, Florida • projected attendance, 3,000 physicians • July 13-15, 2007: Chicago, Illinois • projected attendance, 4,000 physicians Among attending conference delegates, 95% use and recommend nutritional therapeutics, 80% perform in-office procedures, and 55% dispense anti-aging therapeutics in-office. These delegates look to the A4M scientific event as the #1 networking opportunity that showcases leading-edge breakthroughs in life enhancement and life extension.
Around the world, additional A4M supported/co-sponsored scientific programs in anti-aging medicine train more than 30,000 physicians, health practitioners, and scientists annually. Ronald Klatz, MD, DO, addresses a standingroom only crowd of physician and scientific delegates
For information about A4M's USA scientific programs, including a list of our world-renowned lecturers and presentation topics, visit www.worldhealth.net/event . Board Certification in Anti-Aging Medicine The A4M established three independent Certification/Certificate programs for anti-aging professionals. All totaled, 27 events across international venues take place in 2006:
The American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine (ABAAM) was established in 1997 as a professional physician (M.D., D.O., M.B.B.S.) certification and review board which offers physicians recognition in the form of a specialty based examination in anti-aging medicine. Today, more than 1,500 physicians are Diplomates or Board Certified through this program, The American Board of Anti-Aging Health Professionals (ABAAHP), established in 1999, provides recognition and specialty representation for healthcare professionals, including Doctors of Chiropractic (D.C.), Doctors of Dentistry (D.D.S.), Naturopathic Doctors (N.D.), Podiatric Doctors (D.P.M.), Registered Pharmacists (R.Ph.), academic researchers (Ph.D.), nurses (R.N.), physician assistants (P.A.), and nurse practitioners (N.P.). For health professionals involved in the sports medicine field, The American College of Anti-Aging Sports Medicine Professionals (ACASP) Certificate and Workshop Programs are a specialized Certificate program in conjunction with medical organizations to allow health professionals to learn the latest in preventative medicine, integrative medicine, anti-aging medicine and longevity medicine and integrate this into their sports medicine practice.
In the next 12 months, the A4M hosts three major scientific events in anti-aging medicine in the United States:
ANTI-AGING RELATED PRODUCTS & SERVICES OFFERED To learn more about the Board Certification/Certificate Programs of the American Academy of AntiAging Medicine, visit www.worldhealth.net, click on "Certifications." For inquiries, send email to exam@worldhealth.net. The LEx Prize - US $1 Million to Stop Aging Now The LEx Prize is conceived specifically to inspire the minds and motivate the spirits of scientists. It is modeled in similar construct to the X Prize, that resulted with the world's first private spacecraft hurling into the edge of space in 2004. As a cash prize of US $1 Million, The LEx Prize will be awarded to the first researcher(s) or scientist(s) who accomplish the goal of reliably demonstrating the reversal or halting of the aging process in humans, as defined by The LEx Prize Criteria. The winning scientists or researchers must demonstrate that the therapeutic program has reduced the objective biomarkers of aging in ten human subjects (ages 70 years or more), by twenty years each. Both Drs. Klatz and Goldman have pledged US $100,000 each. A4M asks you to pledge to The LEx Prize fund, either as an individual or organization. With your support, we can make The LEx Prize a success, and the reversal of aging a reality. Contact lexprize@worldhealth.net for details. FREE Resources A4M seeks to disseminate information concerning innovative science and research as well as treatment modalities designed to prolong the human lifespan. To achieve this, A4M sponsors the Internet's leading anti-aging portal, at www.worldhealth.net. A4M is also dedicated to educating physicians, scientists, and members of the public on anti-aging issues, via our scientific conferences, magazines, textbooks, and consumer books. We invite you to take advantage of these FREE Resources, 121 Ways to Live 121 Years … and More! Drs. Klatz and Goldman have written more than 30 books, from scientific textbooks to consumer reads. Their latest work, "121 Ways to Live 121 Years … and More!" provides hundreds of individual tips on a wide variety of topics that relate to improving the healthy human lifespan. Read this book and start living the healthy, productive, robust anti-aging lifestyle. Retailing at $12.95 [softcover, 144 pages, 2005], through a special Internet offer you can receive this book for FREE. For details, log on to The World Health Network, www.worldhealth.net, the Internet's leading anti-aging portal. The World Health Network The World Health Network, www.worldhealth.net, an educational outreach platform sponsored by the A4M, provides a wealth of freely available resources. Log on to www.worldhealth.net to find an antiaging physician or practitioner near you, to read the latest information on advancements in life enhancement and life extension, and to learn more about A4M's upcoming scientific programs. Sign up for the FREE electronic biotech newsletter. The World Health Network receives 16 million hits a month and the Newsletter reaches a readership of 300,000 internationally, most of whom are licensed healthcare professionals.
IN MEDICAL SPAS ARE A PROOF OF THE SYNERGY BETWEEN MEDICAL SPAS AND ANTI-AGING MEDICINE Concluding Remarks & Call to Action Observe Drs. Klatz and Goldman: " You can always tell the pioneers by the arrows stuck in their backs, and the new emerging specialty of anti-aging medicine is no different. Like most major shifts in mindset, advances in medical technologies and social perception, new concepts, ideas and movements go through a similar pathway. First there is strong opposition, disinformation and attempts to discredit, then opposition, to be finally followed by copying and then calling it one's own." Longstanding critics of anti-aging medicine are slowly but surely adopting the anti-aging message, supporting A4M's founding proposition that the US federal budget allocate funding to scientists to pursue near-term clinically based research into aging interventions. Presently, the NIH is funded at $28 billion in 2006, but less than 0.1% of that amount goes to understanding the biology of aging. Previous anti-aging naysayers are now proposing that the US government invest $3 billion annually to efforts to study aging-related disease. Encourages Dr. Klatz: "Not only is it time for a sizeable federal commitment to study aging interventions, but it is time for the creation of a Center of Excellence where the world's greatest minds and talents in the field can conduct research and apply their knowledge in clinical anti-aging therapeutics. We issuing a Call to Action to establish The World Center for Anti-Aging Medicine." The crown jewel of the entire anti-aging medical movement, The World Center functions as a world-class, university affiliated research and treatment facility unique in its focus on the investigation and application of diagnostic and treatment protocols that extend the length and enhance the quality, of the human lifespan. Explains Dr. Goldman: "The Business Plan is largely ready for immediate implementation. The project's initial funding needs are estimated at US $30 Million, of which private commitments totaling US $3 Million have already been secured. For the shortfall, the A4M seeks angel benefactors who share our vision to realize anti-aging breakthroughs on an broad and wide-ranging scale." With the continued increase in utilization of anti-aging medicine worldwide, greater numbers of the population will receive early screenings to detect illness, and disease will be treated at earlier stages. By lowering the incidence of full-blown illness, anti-aging medicine cuts the cost of treating disease. Anti-aging medicine, with its programs of early detection and treatment, also equate to extended healthy human lifespans in which debilitating or disabling conditions are minimized or absent. Interested supporters may contact The World Center at center@a4minfo.net.
Gerontology vs. Anti-Aging Medicine As the goal of achieving healthy, productive, extended human lifespans grows near, those clinicians and scientists who have dedicated their professional lives to the pursuit of anti-aging in the form of safe, effective, and progressive interventions as advanced by the A4M have drawn much attention from the "biogerontologists" – biologists who research the processes of aging. As described by Dr. Robert Binstock and colleagues from the School of Medicine's Aging, Health, and Society Department at Case Western Reserve University [Binstock RH. "The war on 'antiaging medicine,'" The Gerontologist, 43(1), 4-14], the contemporary prominence of the anti-aging movement "threaten[s] biogerontological researchers and practitioners." According to Dr. Binstock, much of biogerontology's territorialism towards the study of aging stems from "the marginal status" of that field that required a dozen years of political lobbying in the 1970s and 1980s to overcome. Yet, Dr. Binstock warns that "through their attack on anti-aging medicine, [biogerontologists] may be shooting themselves in the foot." [Radkiewicz M. "The war against anti-aging medicine," EurekAlert Press Release, Feb. 10, 2003]. The anti-aging industry, valued at $45.5 billion (2004), is growing at an average annual growth rate of 9.5%. By 2009, the anti-aging marketplace will reach nearly $72 billion. [Business Communications Co., Inc.]. Anti-aging medicine is now a worldwide movement too significant to ignore any longer.
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