Healthy Aging

Aging is a fact, yet we all seem to do it differently.  What distinguishes the active, vital senior from the feeble elderly?  It is only through recent understandings of genetic polymorphism that we can begin to understand the answer to this question. Genetic polymorphism is the ability of the genes to express a certain response depending on surrounding influences of its environment. For example, if a person is vitamin deficient and has an unhealthy diet and lifestyle, the genes will express a "store and protect" mode which leads to obesity, insulin resistance, and possible high blood pressure. With a proper diet, nutrition, exercise and stress reduction, the same body with the same genes can express life in a better state of health. Everybody's genetic code is unique to some degree. This results in individual variation responses to environmental factors; differing reactions of two individuals to the same habits and lifestyle. For example, some people have a predisposition to certain allergies; where one person will react to pollens in the air, another may not. Thus the term genetic polymorphism (many forms) is derived.

The Healthy Aging Program at the Longevity Healthcare identifies the impact of environmental influences on the function of the body and the genetic predisposition for imbalances. Diagnostic assessments of hormonal , cardiac and brain function in conjunction with lifestyle are used to develop an individualized plan to prevent disease and achieve optimal health. Our approaches are holistic and natural, recognizing the uniqueness of the individual, focusing on improving underlying function of all systems. Aging may be a fact, but loss of quality of life is not. Vitality through prevention is possible.