Dr Thierry HERTOGHE

Module 1 : Senescence, exercise, environment and endocrinologyModule 1 : Senescence, exercise, environment and endocrinologyModule 1 : Senescence, exercise, environment and endocrinology

Module 1 : Senescence, exercise, environment and endocrinology

The ABC of lifespan medicine (adapted to the module): tools and approaches

Juvenile anti-aging medicine:
•    Prenatal anti-aging medicine
•    Childhood anti-aging medicine

Environmental health disease
•    Toxic world
•    Toxic world video
•    Strategies to avoid and eliminate pollutants

Lifespan epidemiology, major aging theories, premature aging syndromes? Statistics on the longest living humans
Lifespan medicine: an exploration into techniques that may extend lifespan from basic methods up forefront ones
Physical exercise:
-    Impact of physical exercise on the incidence of age-related diseases and lifespan
-    Tips from an experienced sportsman
-    Right exercises (dosing) for improving health
-    The exercise programs of top athletes
-    Best body postures to avoid neck and back problems
-    Exercise to reduce insulin resistance
Sports medicine and exercise to reduce age-related diseases
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:
-    diagnosis and treatment
-    Infections (yeast, mycoplasma, toxoplasmosis, that cause CFS and their treatment
Nutritional deficiencies that cause CFS and their treatments with chronic fatigue syndrome
Introduction

The endocrine system: a review
Hormone actions:  an overview

Factors that impact on the endocrine System :
•    Aging
•    physical exercise
•    daylight and darkness
•    pollutants, toxics
Effects of Hormone Therapies on
•    Free radicals: the antioxidant hormone
•    Lifespan
•    Interactive session
Effects of Hormone Therapies on  sleep and sleep deprivation

Endocrine dysfunctions in chronic fatigue syndrome

The endocrine consultation:
•    Hormone lab tests and treatment: overview, part 1& 2
•    Treating hormone deficiencies with tests borderline low within the reference range
•    Balancing the endocrine system: How to balance one hormone with the other
•    interactive discussion

Thyroid Deficiency
•    Physiology
•    Diagnosis
•    Effect of thyroid hormones on age related diseases
•    Studies showing associations of disease with TSH and thyroid hormone levels within the reference range
•    Treatment
•    T3 + T4 treatment versus T4
•    Follow-up problems : how to solve them
Senescence (pathological aging) and lifespan medicine:
-    Lifespan epidemiology, basic mechanisms (including free radicals)
-    Free radical theory of aging
-    Senescence of the senses and of the nervous, muscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, immune and osteoarticular systems: physiology and impact on organs and tissues, possibilities of partial senescence reversal
•    Biological age measurement: how young is your body?
•    Reports of measurement of biologic age  in patients
Pollution and health:
•    Indoor and outdoor  pollution
•    Effects on health
•    Toxic world
•    Strategies to avoid and eliminate pollutants
•    Dental amalgams
•    Detoxification
•    Lab tests  
•    Practical case studies
•    Interactive sessions
Mini exam