It is never too late to start caring for ourselves and preventing.
Many people believe that from the age of 60 there is nothing that can be done. However, in this age group, margins for improvement are much higher. There are studies that show very significant improvements in several biomarkers related to health and age and an increase in quality of life, even in nonagenarian people who have done an anti-ageing preventive medicine or age management medicine programme. For example, strength training for the lower limbs prevents falls and hip fractures and increases the quality of life and life expectancy for people who are older than 90.
The aim is precisely to maintain and improve that wellness and health that you are already enjoying. Although the decline in our functionalities is subtle in some cases, it exists in everybody as they age.
Declining health and wellness happens to all human beings with age, nobody escapes from this. But sometimes, you get used to it and do not remember the vitality you had at the age of 30, resigning yourself to the changes of your body and its functionality over time.
Following a good age management programme you will be able to maintain that wellness and even improve it, and more importantly, prevent diseases and become older with an optimal quality of life.
Of course. A good age management programme improves very obviously and even reverses most of the previous circumstances, improving your general state of energy, vitality, dynamism, libido, physical condition, sleep and own body image, among others.
People never stop ageing. So, the ideal thing is that an anti-ageing preventive medicine or age management programme is continued forever.
The objective is not to reach a temporary improvement and leave it, it is to maintain an optimum state of health and to prevent age-related diseases during all the ageing process. If you abandon it, you go back to the initial state where it started, of course, having gained all the time when you were doing the programme.
The results vary according to each individual, but in most cases, improvements start to be noticed in a few days.
Although the programme’s main objective is to prevent age-related diseases, in a short period of time you will start to notice improvements on a physical, emotional, intellectual and sexual level. Everything depends on the starting point. For example:
Antioxidants, supplements, change of habits, monitoring biomarkers, etc. are maybe not seen reflected in visible changes in the short term, but they are in the medium and long- term. There are already many clients who compare themselves with their peers and they notice a substantial difference both physically and in the level of health.
A person who quits the programme returns to his basal state. That is to say, to the initial situation before starting the programme, without having any rebound effect. His body will return to its normal ageing rhythm. Nevertheless, the time he has spent having an optimal state of health will have a positive effect on his future outlook of health. For example, it is scientifically proven that despite most obese people becoming overweight again, it is preferable they do a diet and take care of themselves during some time and weighing less than doing nothing and weighing more throughout their lifetime.
Usually, the programme will positively interfere in most age-related diseases like cardiovascular, arterial hypertension, diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia and many others.
A good age management programme very often achieves reducing and even stopping medication for the treatment of some diseases. Our specialists must liaise with your primary care doctor or specialist if necessary, with the aim of complement both treatments.
Your programme will never replace your primary care doctor and your specialists.
It is important to bear in mind that age management medicine prevents diseases and it often improves them, even achieving to cure some already ongoing diseases, but is not a substitute. You must continue visiting your doctor when you are ill.
Natural is not always good.
In the past, dying from a simple cold or from an infection and living without light or hot water was natural. Thanks to research, medicine and science, life expectancy has increased and we have improved our way of living. But what happens with the quality of life in this last phase?
In the same way we use electricity for light at night, we should take care of ourselves to try to live longer and better. That is what we do at Neolife, prevent diseases and improve quality of lifestarting at the age of 35.
That is precisely what this is about, to do everything possible to have autonomy and maintain the best quality of life during as much time as possible and therefore be able to enjoy our loved ones and for them to enjoy us with all of our physical and intellectual abilities.
There is not anything more enjoyable than what gives you a healthy and full life.
Often, ‘healthies’ or healthy people are described as obsessed with health and it is thought that they do not know how to enjoy life when the reality is, in fact, the opposite. To adopt a healthy attitude towards life is enjoyable and moreover allows you to enjoy of many things that you would not be able to achieve without good health.
There is no doubt that genetics influence life expectancy, but not as much as we think. Genetics accounts for 30%, while the environmental factors (lifestyle and medical interventions) account for 70%.
The fact that we have a family history of long longevity does not guarantee us that we are going to live many years, and by no means in good conditions. It is essential, therefore, to have good lifestyle habits and if possible, to implement the necessary medical interventions to prevent and improve our quality of life. This is what is done in an anti-ageing preventive medicine programme.
The sooner you start an anti-ageing preventive medicine or age management programme, the better.
Although, from 30 years on, and more markedly in the 40s, is when signs of ageing start to appear significantly.
There are two complementary ones with different objectives:
– General health checkups that are usually done at work, even the more sophisticated ones, have as the main objective to rule out the presence of any disease and in some cases to give some advice about good lifestyle.
–Age management medicine or anti-ageing preventive medicine checkups seek to measure and explain the biomarkers related with health and longevity, with the aim of defining integral treatment to prevent related to age diseases and improve quality of life.
Biological age is a tentative data and does not predict the date of death. It helps to have references about where we are, how we evolve and, therefore, the need to take measures for the future.
Not wanting to know your biological age could be equivalent to saying that we do not want to go to the doctor when we have a disease, just in case something bad will be diagnosed.
It is essential because without the checkup you cannot know each person’s starting point; therefore, it would be impossible to prescribe any kind of treatment.
Our programmes are based on each person’s biomarker target state, they are measured initially and over time, ensuring the desired results at all times.
It is not indispensable but it is advisable.
Exercise is one of the eight pillars to take action on, although we do have to take into account that exercise is one of the basic pillars of this medicine.
In general, people who live longer have always been very active, either because of their job or hobbies or because they did sports.
We have to take into account that even the little things we can do for our health will improve us. It is preferable to go on a balanced diet, take supplements, maintain metabolic and hormonal balance, rest and not do exercise than to do nothing.
Numerous scientific studies show the capacity of the body to adapt itself to training and to improve its physical condition, no matter your age or level of physical condition.
However, the improvement in physical and sports performance of a person who is already trained above a certain age is limited by the biological process of ageing.
One of the main objectives of the Neolife age management or anti-ageing preventive medicine programmes is restoring hormonal and metabolic balance which will allow achieving similar levels of physical performance as the ones you enjoyed in your thirties.
On the one side, we are told that carbohydrates are absolutely necessary for our health and that they should be the main nutrient. On the other side, the latest news talk about having to limit their intake and they are blamed for the obesity epidemic in developed countries.
After the complete failure of campaigns against overweight and obesity based on the demonisation of fat, current scientific interest is focusing on carbohydrates with a high glycaemic index.
The ability to put on weight from a food is not only because of its calories but also because of its capacity to increase the levels of glucose in blood and the hormone insulin. Insulin is the lipogenic hormone (fat collector) par excellence and foods with a high glycaemic index are the main ones responsible for the accumulation of fat tissue in overweight and obese people.
Current anti-obesity campaigns are focusing on these foods rich in refined sugars and flours. Among these are: baked goods, cakes, sweet drinks (even diet ones), alcohol, bread and white rice, refined pasta, potatoes, etc. This does not mean that these foods are forbidden, but we do have to moderate their consumption, some in a drastic way like processed baked goods or sweetened drinks and others in a moderate way like potatoes. In the case of bread and rice, the recommendation is to eat wholegrain bread and brown rice.
Indeed, with menopause, there is a deep hormonal change which favours fat tissue accumulation and lean tissue loss (muscular), which decreases basal metabolism.
So, even eating in a similar way to how you did before menopause you could gain weight.Moreover, the diet to lose thoseextra kilos should be a little bit stricter. Regular exercise with the proper guidelines also produces effects.
But what will really make you notice a big change is your metabolic and hormonal balance, with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Your plasmatic levels will be optimum again and this will help your body to behave in a similar way as in previous years. And with a nutritional readjustment and appropriate exercise, you will be the weight you always were.
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy has always to be done under strict medical supervision.
We cannot always have optimum nutrition and be able to provide ourselves with necessary nutrients. An age management program measures and controls the amount of nutrients that each individual has in his body and prescribes supplements in the case that all needs cannot be covered with diet. Each individual should take the nutrients the doctor prescribes him, taking into account his needs at the time and the extra intake of necessary nutrients.
If you eat every day to nourish yourself, shouldn’t you also take supplements to not have nutritional deficiencies? The number of supplements varies according to the result of the checkup and each person’s diet. Everything that cannot be obtained through each person’s diet will be supplemented.
Moreover, the adaptation to the nutritional supplement intake is progressive, in such a way that the most indispensable ones are prescribed at the beginning and additional ones are added gradually, towards optimisation.
We also have to take into account that not all supplements on the market have the same dose nor do they use the same raw material. So the dosage to take always has to be reviewed according to each individual’s deficiencies.
In our experience, not all supplements have the same effect on our health, mainly due to the dose, quality of the raw materials and manufacturing (not all the formats are absorbed in the same way for each raw material). Neolife has formulated supplements based on the latest scientific studies related to age management and to clinical expertise in the US.
Supplements are prepared by one of the best European laboratories, with headquarters in London, with a tailored formula built exclusively for our clients. You will receive your nutritional supplements at your house or office or you may pick them up at the clinic if you wish.
Hormonal optimisation involves restoring certain hormone levels up to rates which will never be reached naturally. We are programmed to be born, grow, reproduce and die. Programmed senescence makes it so that once we have exceeded the natural age of reproduction, our body starts a slow and progressive deterioration until death. Part of that deterioration is caused by hormonal imbalance. Hormone replacement therapy involves maintaining hormonal levels similar to those values that were reached in the person’s thirties, with an ultimate aim of preventing diseases and improving the person’s general state of health.
During decades, conventional medicine has used synthetic hormones and, therefore, hormones ‘foreign’ to the body, as the chosen method to prescribe hormone replacement to relieve menopause symptoms. In most cases and always where appropriate, our medical team will prescribe hormones which identically simulate in a chemical form and in its molecular structure the hormones that the body produces naturally.
Hormones are an essential part of the correct balance and functioning of our body. If they were harmful, we would not have them. What is not good is their progressive decrease over the years, which is related with numerous diseases and states of sub-optimal health. However, a bad or inappropriate hormone replacement therapy prescription and inefficient control can have side effects, so it is essential to be experts on hormone replacement therapy protocols with bioidentical hormones. There are numerous scientific articles that break down the myth about the safety of the hormone replacement with bioidentical hormones (bioidentical hormone replacement therapy – BHRT)
Since the results of the WHI (Women Health Initiative) study in 2002 were misinterpreted, there has been bad press regarding hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women.
The problem lies in that the study was done with mare hormones and in women with a predisposition to developing certain diseases.
Nowadays, the same study makes reverse recommendations to those given over 10 years ago, but always with bioidentical hormones.
Due to that study, millions of women have lost the opportunity to prevent diseases and improve their physical, social and intimate quality of life, reducing menopause symptoms.
Many hormones are considered doping substances because they artificially improve the athletic performance of the competitive athletes.
The replacement hormone therapy with bioidentical hormones is not recommended for young people who do not show plasma deficits. Moreover, competitive athletes cannot do it because it is simply forbidden for them.
With age, plasma levels of hormones decrease. Therefore, it is necessary to replace them with bioidentical hormones. That is to say, with the same ones that our body produces. It is a powerful scientifically and medically validated tool to prevent and treat diseases and improve quality of life.
In the United States, more than two million women already benefit from this therapy on a regular basis.
Numerous scientific studies show the capacity of the body to adapt itself to training and to improve its physical condition, no matter your age or level of physical condition.
However, the improvement in physical and sports performance of a person who is already trained above a certain age is limited by the biological process of ageing.
One of the main objectives of the Neolife age management or anti-ageing preventive medicine programmes is restoring hormonal and metabolic balance which will allow achieving similar levels of physical performance as the ones you enjoyed in your thirties.
Indeed, with menopause, there is a deep hormonal change which favours fat tissue accumulation and lean tissue loss (muscular), which decreases basal metabolism.
So, even eating in a similar way to how you did before menopause you could gain weight. Moreover, the diet to lose those extra kilos should be a little bit stricter. Regular exercise with the proper guidelines also produces effects.
But what will really make you notice a big change is your metabolic and hormonal balance, with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Your plasmatic levels will be optimum again and this will help your body to behave in a similar way as in previous years. And with a nutritional readjustment and appropriate exercise, you will be the weight you always were.
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy has always to be done under strict medical supervision.
