Seniors and Elderly Health

Life Extension Clinics

It may seem like the stuff of legend or science fiction, but life extension clinics have no less a goal than what has been humankind's dream for millennia: lengthening the human life span by fighting disease and the agents that cause aging within the body.

It may seem like the stuff of legend or science fiction, but life extension clinics have no less a goal than what has been humankind's dream for millennia: lengthening the human life span by fighting disease and the agents that cause aging within the body.

You will find numerous life extension clinics around the world, ranging from the Life Extension Foundation to the Mayo Clinic and many more. All these life extension clinics have a number of areas that they believe are crucial to lengthening human life, and have the potential to help human beings live for decades more than they would otherwise.

Life extension clinics often concentrate on the role that hormones play in the aging process. If research at one of the life extension clinics discovers that certain hormones actively cause aging and decay by their presence, they will find a way of reducing or suppressing these hormones.

If, however, research at one of the life extension clinics discovers that the lack of these hormones causes aging, then the research will focus on stimulating the body to continue producing these hormones longer than they would naturally.

Nutrition is another area that life extension clinics concentrate on, particularly the effect of a calorie restricted diet in prolonging lifespan. So far, the research has been encouraging and clinical trials on animals have shown that a reduced calorie diet, especially when started in middle age, is effective in reducing incidence of diseases such as cataracts and cancer. And these very fortunate used by the life extension clinics for their research stayed younger for longer.

Life extension clinics also research and promote the consumption of antioxidants in the diet. This is a medical breakthrough that has come out of the laboratories of the life extension clinics and has been as much of a revolution in the latter half of the 20th century and the first part of the 21st as the discovery of vitamins was a century ago.

Our grandparents were astounded to discover that staples such as olive oil and tomatoes had the health-giving benefits of Vitamins E and C respectively. We have learned that these same products contain antioxidants that scavenge the free radicals that damage the body at a cellular level and cause aging. This knowledge is thanks to the fine research done at life extension clinics.

Life extension clinics also look at less everyday areas of research. These areas are nanotechnology (the use of tiny machines to rebuild the body at the atomic level - the reverse of free radicals) and cryonics (using low temperatures to preserve tissues and organs for transplants).

The two best known life extension clinics - The Life Extension Foundation and the Mayo Clinic - helps their research by investing some of the profits from the sale of their products into research. These products often contain some of the substances and supplements discovered to be effective by that same research.

It's a real win-win situation: you benefit from buying and using the products that life extension clinics have already researched and developed for optimum health and anti-aging, and some of the money you paid for your product will go towards research that will prolong the human life span - perhaps indefinitely...

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