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