Preventive Medicine & Longevity Optimization
About This Condition
Preventive medicine — the practice of identifying and modifying disease risk before clinical illness manifests — is the stated goal of primary care, yet the actual delivery in conventional medicine is minimal: an annual wellness visit with vitals, a standard lipid panel, and age-appropriate cancer screenings. Longevity medicine extends this framework further: it aims to compress morbidity, extend healthspan (years of life free from chronic disease and functional decline), and optimize the biological processes of aging. The hallmarks of aging — mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular senescence, epigenetic drift, telomere attrition, proteostatic failure, and inflammaging — are increasingly targetable with lifestyle, nutritional, hormonal, and pharmacologic interventions.
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