As in Naturopathy, Anti-Aging medicine restores health and prevents age-related problems, such as the effects of the abnormal, increased and premature of aging. The effects of aging are measurable far in advance to any appearance of aging. Prevention of aging and restoration of health is, in essence, Naturopathy in its purest form.
“Anti-Aging treatments will be applied, with Naturopathy at its core, to ensure prevention and, most importantly, repair and restoration to optimal youthful health.”
The detrimental factors contributing to faulty aging are obstacles to health that are optimally treated with Naturopathy. The latest research has revealed seven factors related to aging as either causes or effects. These seven are;
- The loss of cells that are not replaced properly in quality and/or quantity.
- Or, the opposite, the accumulation of aged cells that should have undergone natural cell death and elimination. (Not cancer cells in this case.)
- Damage to cell’s chromosomes causing DNA (nuclear) mutations, this may lead to cancers.
- Damage to mitochondrial (energy power plants of our cells) chromosomes causing mutations in the DNA of the mitochondria.
- “Junk” accumulation inside the cells.
- “Junk” accumulation outside the cells.
- “Stiffening” of the tissues due to loss of elasticity because of the damaging effects of the “junk” accumulations especially outside the cells.
Today, Anti-aging approach has two basic aims: one is at the actual biological and metabolic processes causing all the problems, and the other is treating the effects of the biological and metabolic processes. Unfortunately, attempts to manipulate our biology to reduce or obviate the damaging effects usually causes side effects. So, the current and safest approach is applying what Mother Nature has provided us in the form of our self-healing capacity and the healing medicines from the nature.
The treatments address healthy cell functioning by ensuring; (1) the tissues, and hence the cells, receive optimal delivery of nutrients, (2) the cell’s environment is unburdened by toxins, from external sources or internally produced, and (3) that detoxification and elimination of waste is optimal.