
4,000 Scientific Delegates at World's Premier
Anti-Aging Medical Conference Concur
"Live to age 80? Bah Humbug! We aim to live to a healthy, fit,
active, robust, and productive 120+ years young," unanimously declares
a group of nearly 4,000 physician and scientific delegates from 30 nations
convening at the Tenth International Congress on Anti-Aging & Biomedical
Technologies, sponsored by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
Taking place 5-8 December 2002, the four-day scientific conference provided
a forum of educational exchange on clinical applications and research
breakthroughs in extending and enhancing the human lifespan. From its
inception with one dozen scientific pioneers in 1993, the A4M has grown
to an internationally respected professional organization composed of
11,500 members from 70 countries, many of whom hold some of the most
prestigious positions at both academic and clinical hospital-based facilities
and are published scientific researchers.
Central to the Tenth International Congress was the focus on safe and
effective ways to prevent, intervene, or minimize the disabilities,
diseases, and dysfunctions that currently plague us as we age. A few
of the highlight presentations, and A4M's predictions for near-term
eradication of aging-related diseases, included:
· Bill Anton, BSc, Swinburne University (Australia): emphasized the
importance of achieving optimal hormonal balance in the aging body,
and its clinically proven role in slowing aging-related diseases.
· Barry Halliwell, DPhil, DSc, National University of Singapore: explained
the multitude of health benefits of the judicious utilization of nutritional
supplements and encouraged safe and qualified dispensation by trained
physicians.
· D. Alan Butterfield, PhD, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging/University
of Kentucky (USA): elucidated the role of oxidative stress in brains
of those genetically predisposed to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) due to
the ApolipoproteinE allele 4 to the onset of AD.
· Alexander Eaton MD, Duke University School of Medicine: reported on
results from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study Research Group which
definitively showed the protective effect of antioxidants and minerals
on macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in the US
and Europe.
· Frederic Vagnini MD, Cornell University: alerted the audience to the
epidemic of obesity plaguing the US, and its correlation to the soaring
number of cases of diabetes, Dr. Vagnini reviewed the importance of
early diagnosis of insulin-related disorders that contribute to cardiovascular
disease.
· Steven Feinstein, MD, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
(Chicago IL USA): to measure atherosclerosis – the leading contributor
to coronary artery disease (CAD) – the nation's #1 killer, Dr. Feinstein
elaborated on the use of noninvasive ultrasound imaging techniques of
arteries and heart tissue in order to identify high-risk individuals
while in the earliest stages of the disease and up to 15 years before
a heart attack, thereby improving the efficacy of intervention.
Dr. Ronald Klatz, A4M President, commented in the event's closing remarks
that: "This past weekend, 4,000 of the brightest minds in the new
science of anti-aging medicine united in an educational forum that promoted
an open academic discourse on cutting-edge life-enhancing, life-extending
medical advancements. Over the past decade, we have witnessed a broad
array of breakthrough diagnostic technologies and therapeutic interventions
that have been first reported at A4M's scientific conferences achieve
mainstream acceptance. Anti-aging advancements enhance the quality,
and extend the quantity, of the human lifespan, and A4M is widely respected
as an international body of innovative, forward-thinking physicians
and scientists leading the future of clinical medicine, scientific research,
and public policy."
Mark your calendar for the A4M's "Anti-Aging Therapeutics for the
Office-Based Physician & Health Practitioner" summer seminar
program, taking place June 6-8, 2003, in Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA).
The A4M is also proud to support the Second Annual Asia-Pacific Conference
on Anti-Aging Medicine, taking place June 26-28, 2003, in Singapore.
Visit The World Health Network, the Internet's leading anti-aging portal
and official website of the A4M, at www.worldhealth.net, for event details.