Age Management Growing but Not Officially Recognized
Just read an interesting story on CNN regarding a practice of medicine called “Age Management”.
What is age management? On its Web site, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine refers to “the arcane, outmoded stance that aging is natural and inevitable” and says “the disabilies associated with normal aging are caused by physiological dysfunction.” This is quite controversial and the American Medical Association does not consider anti-aging an official medical practice or specialty.
According to CNN the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine which was founded in 1993 to support research on extending life and treating age-related disease, claims 19,000 members in 90 countries and claims that membership has nearly doubled in the past five years.
So what are the treatments? Well, to me it seems like more common sense than anything else.
On CNN it says “After meeting Dr. Casas, the Roussells started taking more than three dozen dietary supplements and began a serious diet based mostly on “good” carbohydrates and small helpings of fish, nuts, fruits and legumes. They also received an “exercise prescription” from Casas’ business partner Lee Haney, an eight-time Mr. Olympia. ”
Wow, and they paid someone for that advice? Eating well and excercising. Not exactly rocket science. It is sound advice, but hardly medical or something worth paying top dollar for.
