Y2K To Herald a Medical Revolution: Three Thousand Physicians and Scientists Proclaim that Immortality Is Within Our Grasp
December 21, 1999/CHICAGO (PRWEB) December 23, 1999 -
By the close of 2001, humankind will realize numerous scientific and medical phenomena that will revolutionize the delivery of healthcare in the next five years. As a result, the quantity, as well as quality, of the human lifespan will forever be changed for the better.
At the Seventh International Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine and Biomedical Technologies, hosted by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), December 11-13, 1999, three thousand physician and scientist attendees listened eagerly as forty lecturers from the most prestigious educational, research, commercial, private, and government institutions presented clinical findings and novel theories that will usher in the Ageless Society: a time when no one asks "how old are you?" as the notion of birthdays quickly becomes outmoded and irrelevant.
According to Dr. Ronald M. Klatz, M. D., D. O., President of the A4M, author, medical futurist, and founding physician of the anti-aging movement, the next two years hold enormous promise for the realization of boundless youth and vitality:
~ Fleets of miniature robotic warriors that will fend off disease on a cellular level, collect information to diagnose cellular functions, deliver site - and time-specific medications to target tissues, and -- eventually, support the biological performance of the body by protecting against otherwise fatal injury.
~ Baldness will be beaten -- with laboratory-based hair cloning already a success in human test subjects, genetic therapies that will eliminate male pattern baldness are soon to become widely available to the general public.
~ Alzheimer's Disease will be halted -- genetic therapies, including manipulation of the predisposing Apolipoprotein-E factor, will become available to battle this life-draining disease within the next eighteen months.
~ Age-related vision loss will be counteracted by implanted biochips that will stimulate tissue growth to slow or reverse macular degeneration as well as stimulate the visual center of the brain to create artificial or enhance eyesight.
~ Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) will be reversed -- based on new research reported from the University of California, it is anticipated that implantable biochips and nerve growth factors that stimulate repair and regrowth of nerve tissue that will act as a bridge in the recovery from SCI will be a reality perhaps within the next twenty-four months.
~ Environmentally-triggered illnesses will be banished -- the quest for therapeutic interventions via dietary modification, nutritional supplementation, hormonal manipulation, and detoxification techniques will surmount the initiation of illnesses currently resulting from food and environmental triggers. Diseases such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease, epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders will succumb to the new effective therapies based on food and environmental toxin neutralization techniques.
~ A unified knowledge base on aging -- at the Seventh International Congress, the A4M proudly launched its premier research effort, LEXCORE (the Life Extension Core of Information). With this project, participating physicians and medical centers will pool their data in order to establish a worldwide database that will permit analysis for therapeutic outcomes that validate the emerging science of anti-aging medicine. Much akin to the construct of the Framingham Heart Study, which is currently regarded as the most significant epidemiological health study in medical history, responsible for our present understanding of heart disease, stroke, and vascular disease risk factors, LEXCORE, in the next five years, is predicted to surpass the breadth and depth of data contained in the Framingham project. LEXCORE, which will begin to receive its first data sets in March 2000, will yield profound insights into human aging that will mark the emergence of anti-aging medicine as a preeminent primary mainstream healthcare approach..
A new societal order -- in 1999, the world is home to 100,000 centenarians (people age 100+). By the year 2050, that number is predicted to rise steeply to 2.2 million. With such a trend of overall extended life span, Dr. Ronald Klatz predicts an evolution towards the Ageless Society. By living past the ripe young age of 120, thanks to the advancements of longevity science, the notion of retirement will be abandoned. In its place, humankind will welcomingly replace three to four careers per lifetime, with ample leisure opportunities to enjoy along the way. This new societal order, along with the potential for practical immortality -- lifespans of 200 years and beyond -- is within our grasp.
An organization with a membership of 8000 physicians and scientists from fifty-five countries, the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is the sole medical society dedicated to the advancement of therapeutics related to the science of longevity medicine. Please visit www. worldhealth. net, the official website of the A4M, receiving over one million hits monthly and rated in the Lycos Top 5% Directory and Top 15 Medical Websites by Luckman's Internet Guide.
You are invited to secure Press Credentials to the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine's next scientific program, taking place 22-23 July 2000 in Chicago, IL. Please fax your request on station or publication letterhead to the contact listed below.
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