La medicine anti-aging It is very much in vogue lately. More and more websites, clinics and hospitals are offering and promoting it. On many occasions, we can see the term crossed with “preventive medicine”. But what do they consist of? What disciplines do they encompass and what do they deal with? In this article, in short, we will explain to you what is medicine anti-aging and its differences with preventive medicine.
Preventive medicine and medicine anti-aging
First of all, we will begin by clearing up the reasonable doubt that these two disciplines raise among patients: preventive and anti-aging They are not the same type of medicine.
What is preventive medicine?
Is the medical specialty responsible, as its name indicates, for the disease prevention. The discipline is based on a set of actions and medical advice designed to prevent, not focused on curing. This is because The goal of preventive medicine is to act before the symptom or symptoms occur or become more serious.; before they become a disease.
Preventive medicine is provided both in the hospital and in the nursing home. primary care and has four stages or phases depending on the state of the patient's illness. These are:
- Hall. The primary prevention phase is provided mainly by governments and administrations. This phase of prevention is intended for completely healthy peopleSome of the actions carried out are health information and promotion campaigns, vaccination campaigns, etc.
- High school. This is the stage also known as "early diagnosis". With this type of diagnosis, it is possible to find the cause of the disease.Disease in such early stages that treatment is minimal and much more effective than in later stages.
- Tertiary: At this stage, the patient is already sick and preventive medicine takes care of it. avoid complications of the disease, sequels and others.
- Quaternary. This would be the last phase. In it, the discipline tries to avoid the greatest number of consequences produced by interventions of the health system on the patient.
What is medicine? anti-aging?
The medicine anti-aging is a multidisciplinary medical discipline which is exclusively oriented to maintain vital functions and improve quality of life, slowing down the arrival of Discomfort associated with aging from the patients.
It is a medical discipline with which we try to achieve a higher quality of life in a longer life.
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Key points of medicine anti-aging They are diet, sleep quality, physical activity, stress control and hormonal control.
Therefore, some of the disciplines that could be considered part of medicine anti-aging are:
- Medicine and cosmetic surgery
- Sports Medicine
- Nutrition
- Neurology
- Psychology
- Hormonal medicine
Diseases associated with aging
Cellular aging does not only concern wrinkles, weight gain or mood swings. Cellular aging is the origin of cardiovascular and tumor diseases.
Differences between both disciplines
The main advantage that the medical approach to medicine brings to our health anti-aging, It is its global or holistic nature that sees our body as a whole and not as a sum of parts.
The main common point between medicine anti-aging and preventive medicine lies in that Neither one nor the other discipline is intended to act on the disease.
Aside from this common point, The approaches of both disciplines differ quite a bit. Therefore, we are not talking about the same thing when we refer to one or the other. However, and of course, Both disciplines can act jointly and complementarily..
Do Doctor T Clinics use medicine? anti-aging?
The answer to this question has two answers: yes and no.
The activity of our clinics could be considered as part of medicine anti-aging refering to hormonal medicine that we practice in it already improving quality of life (physically, mentally, sexually, etc.) that our treatments produce in men over 35 years of age.
However, our treatments (TRT) are only indicated for male patients who suffer from hypogonadism (hormonal deficiency). Hypogonadism, as you already know, is a disease. As we have explained in previous paragraphs, Medicine anti-aging It does not deal with acting on the disease.
That is why, even though At Doctor T Clinics we work to improve the quality of life of our patients, from this point of view it is not possible to include our treatments within this discipline.
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