‘We have to shake things up’ – putting longevity medicine into practice

The Healthy Longevity Medicine Society aims to make longevity a specialty area of modern healthcare.

Amid all the cutting-edge research and drug discovery news at this year’s?ARDD meeting, you may have missed a key announcement about the launch of a new organisation focused on the development of the field of longevity medicine. The?Healthy Longevity Medicine Society?(HLMS) aims to make the field of longevity medicine a respected and independent medical speciality.

To get the ball rolling, the HLMS has assembled an impressive list of founding council members, including professors Nir Barzilai, James Kirkland, Harold Pincus and Thomas Rando, as it seeks to establish new medical standards around extending healthspan, targeting aging mechanisms and optimising performance.

My take on this: My take on this: From?cellular reprogramming?and?senolytics?to?fasting?and?supplements, the field of longevity is awash with exciting innovations that hold great promise for the future of humanity. However, most doctors and health professionals are still unaware of progress in longevity, and most of the developments in the field have not yet filtered through into clinical practice. Working alongside the likes of the?Longevity Biotechnology Association, the Healthy Longevity Medicine Society aims to lay the foundations for a future where longevity is front and centre in healthcare. Longevity.Technology spoke with its president, Prof Andrea Maier, and vice-president, Prof Evelyne Bischof, to learn more.

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Professor Maier, internal medicine specialist and co-director of the Centre for Healthy Longevity at the National University of Singapore, states that doctors must start thinking about what their role will be amid all the investment and research progress in longevity.

“Physicians should be having that conversation around what is wellness, what is medicine, and how do we regulate it,” she says. “Currently in medicine, we are treating patients when it’s too late, when traditional age-related diseases have already occurred – and that has to change. I was a hospital manager for a long time, and I left that sector because that it was so conservative. We have to shake it up.”

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