Rather than anti-aging medicine, aging specialists have for a while preferred to speak of preventive medicine. Corn “The notion that is rising today is that of” medicine of the four Ps “: that is to say both predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory”, explains Dr Jean-François Bézot, biologist, specialist in anti-aging functional biology.
Predictivebecause, if we are determined by our genes, the type of life we lead allows them to express themselves more or less.
Preventive, because the detection of weaknesses avoids many problems.
Personalized, because we do not all have the same needs.
And participatory, because the maintenance of our bodily machine depends above all on us. The goal is not to stay young at all costs, but to prevent as much as possible discomfort, aches and pains and other more serious concerns that may appear over time. How? ‘Or’ What ? By a subtle alchemy between a reasonable hygiene of life and the essential little zest of freedom. Centenarians are often optimists who have overcome life’s problems, including health accidents. If they are more and more numerous, it is also because medicine makes it possible to better and better manage incidents of course. As long as you put your own to it.
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Life expectancy keeps getting longer Over the past sixty years, men and women have gained an average of fourteen years of life. Life expectancy at birth, which had stalled last year due to the influenza epidemic, is on the rise again, reaching 79.2 years for men and 85.4 years for women . Thus, in twenty years, it has increased by 3.6 years for women, and 5.6 years for men, the gap between the two sexes tending to narrow. |
Make your health capital grow
A slow beating heart, low blood pressure, a stable weight are recognized factors of longevity. You can inherit it, but that’s no reason to believe yourself invulnerable … You can also favor situations that favor them. According to specialists, 25% of the factors explaining longevity come from genes, against 75% from lifestyle and the environment. Keeping a body and head in good working order, without necessarily doing push-ups every morning, or fasting every other day or swallowing hormones all year round, it is possible!
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