Vitality Medicine

Vitality Medicine by Dr. de Brabandt

Defining the aging process is a hot topic. After all, a huge industry selling products claiming to help us achieve this exists, and all over the media we can find gurus looking to share their tips! Some people explore medicine for ways to minimise the body’s signs of wear, and in this article, we will be focusing on vitality medicine.

Nutraceutical Supplements

Nutraceutical supplements are commonly used in anti-aging medicine, This includes vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals, such as Vitamin A, C, and E, vitamin selenium, and glutathione. There is a theory that antioxidants play a key role in the aging process. Vitamins and minerals contain significant antioxidant characteristics. If we look to food, where there is also interest in benefits to the aging process, we can see that the most lauded superfoods contain antioxidant characteristics.

Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicine has recently seen an increase in popularity, however, it can be a controversial practice. Some believe that nothing can be gained from taking this form of medicine, others insist it is as good as its non-herbal counterpart-or even better. Herbal medicine is taken for all sorts of reasons, age-defying being one of them.

A Herbal medicine sought for its age-defying characteristics will be made up of natural plant extracts that are said to slow down the aging process. Because clinical trials don’t exist for herbal remedies it is hard to use documentation to select the most effective options. But there are some ingredients commonly found in herbal medicine which have been scientifically recorded as offering a positive benefit.

Panax ginseng root and Cinnamomum (cinnamon) cassia bark have been found to significantly extend the life span in C.elegans. In antioxidant herbs, cinnamon tends to be the most potent, and like ginseng root, reduces the expression of amyloid which is said to be a hallmark in the human brain of pathological development of Alzheimer’s disease.

The Future of Vitality Medicine

In recent years there have been exciting developments in potential life-extending drugs. Rapamycin is a drug administered short-term to block the growth of certain cancer types and has been highly effective in extending the healthy lifespan of mice by over 20 percent. It is not yet known how safe the drug would be to give to people over extended periods, but it is likely the drug may help ward off age-related illnesses.

Acarbose is a drug used in some countries to control diabetes but also shows promising anti-aging effects. Male mice experienced a 22 percent increase in healthy lifespan after the drug was administered to them, and females a 5-1- percent increase. The drug 17-1-estradiol has been revealed to increase the lifespan of male mice by 15-18 percent but does not affect female mice.

Although there are plenty of options when it comes to vitality medicine in the current climate, we can expect many new drugs to appear as more research and discoveries are made. It may also be that existing drugs currently used for a different purpose are found to offer life-expanding properties.

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