As we age, our bodies tend to go through several changes. While gray hair often accompanies a head full of wisdom, other symptoms of aging are not so pleasant. A functional medicine approach to longevity is a personalized, preventative method of care that keeps you healthy longer and can even reverse the aging process!
If your goal is to live an active and robust life into your 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and beyond, then keep reading!
How Does the Body Age?
Did you know you have two “ages?” Your chronological age is based on your birth date, but your biological age shows how your body has spent those years. Bio age differs from chronological age because biological age can go forward or backward depending on damage and repair.
As we age, our bodies begin to function less efficiently and slowly collect damage from internal and external causes. Some of these causes are natural, but many are avoidable. This fact is critical because, according to the World Health Organization, people spend, on average, the last 20% of their lives managing chronic illnesses.
By age 65, 80% of people have at least one chronic condition, such as heart complications, cancer, or dementia. A substantial majority has at least two. The statistics are foreboding, but there is also a ray of hope. The younger your biological age, the less likely you are to become one of those statistics, regardless of your chronological age.
What are Anti-Aging Solutions?
You may be wondering what impacts your biological age and if there is anything you can do about it. Luckily, there are anti-aging solutions that exist that you can access right now!
First, let’s look at some of the factors that determine your biological age. Remember, some factors can either accelerate or reverse it.
Factors That Reverse Your Biological Age
- Healthy gut bacteria
- Balanced exercise
- 7-9 hours of sleep
- Meditation/mindfulness practice
- A healthy, diverse diet.
Factors That Accelerate Biological Age
- High blood sugar
- Environmental toxins
- Not enough or excess exercise
- Certain medications
- Gut dysbiosis (bad gut bacteria)
- Excess stress/inflammation
If you are worried that you are late to the game and haven’t been living a healthy lifestyle to date, don’t worry. There are ways you can optimize and boost your biological age through various functional medicine-based anti-aging solutions. Even if you have a healthy lifestyle, supporting your biological age through various means can help keep chronic disease at bay.
Here are some of the anti-aging solutions we offer at Peak Health Institute.
NAD+
Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, NAD+, is a naturally occurring coenzyme of niacin (B3) that helps our cells produce energy by converting the energy we get from food into usable cellular energy. Research shows that NAD+ plays a vital role in assisting the body with numerous important functions, including:
- Repairing cellular DNA
- Protecting cellular DNA
- Supporting mitochondrial function
- Preserving the telomeres of your chromosomes
- Extracting and utilizing energy from food sources
Higher levels of NAD mean you’ll have a better functioning metabolism, and a better functioning metabolism results in increased energy, awareness, and cognitive function.
At Peak Health Institute, NAD+ therapy is completed via intravenous (IV) infusion, making extra NAD+ available to your body. This liquid infusion makes 100% of the NAD+ bioavailable, meaning your body can use all this material.
Peptide Therapy
Peptides are naturally occurring amino acids or the building blocks for proteins within your body. These building blocks are responsible for a wide range of biological functions, including controlling hormone levels, metabolic function, inflammation, and even aging.
Unfortunately, high-stress levels and poor diet can disrupt your body’s normal production of peptides and accelerate your biological age.
Peptide therapy involves using a specific peptide or mix of peptides to achieve a desired health outcome. At Peak Health Institute, peptide therapy is used to treat conditions including:
- Cellular health and repair
- Supporting immune system function
- Neurological repair and optimization
- Endocrine system support and hormonal regulation
Microneedling with PRP
While it may seem like health optimization is all about external factors like supplements and nutrition, that is not always the case. Your body actually has the amazing capacity to heal itself!
Platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, is one such method that supports your body’s own healing process. In fact, it is a substance that your functional medicine provider derives from your blood.
Research suggests that PRP encourages cell repair and soft tissue healing. Concentrated platelets from your blood are injected into an injured joint or your skin through controlled injury, like microneedling, to take advantage of your body’s natural growth factors and healing capabilities.
The growth factors in plasma control inflammation and healing, thus rejuvenating your skin or decreasing pain and inflammation in your joints. Essentially, PRP helps your tissue heal itself, helping you look and feel younger.
Joint Injection Therapy
Nothing can make you more aware of aging as joint pain. Joint pain can put a damper on almost every aspect of your life. If you’re struggling with painful or swollen joints, our joint injection therapy can help alleviate the localized pain and inflammation so that you can get back to feeling and moving like you used to!
The joint injections at Peak Health Institute stimulate your body’s natural healing response to regenerate joints and tissue and provide much-needed relief from the pain you’re experiencing.
Vitamin IV Therapy
One of the ways in which you can slow your biological clock is by getting enough vitamins and minerals. Vitamins are an essential part of living a healthy and fulfilling life. Most of us take a daily vitamin supplement and eat consciously for this reason.
However, though we try our best, we may not get everything we need through diet or supplements alone. Much of this concerns the poor soil quality that has plagued our agriculture industry for years, as well as the rampant use of pesticides.
Vitamin IV therapy is an excellent and innovative method of getting the essential vitamins, amino acids, antioxidants, and minerals your body needs but may be missing!
At Peak Health Institute, we offer a wide range of vitamin IV therapies to help you truly optimize your health. We offer pre-designed infusions and are happy to create a custom blend based on your body’s unique requirements!
Work With Peak Health Institute
Functional medicine is preventative medicine and is one of the best ways to support your biological age. If you’re looking for the ultimate anti-aging solutions, these innovative therapies are the answer. Contact us here to learn more!