This month, we’re honoring National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, a time to spotlight brain health and the importance of proactive care. With the holidays approaching, it’s easy to feel stretched thin, but this is also the perfect time to invest in yourself—your energy, vitality, and overall wellness.
How Longevity Medicine Optimizes Brain Health
Longevity interventions can help mitigate age-related cognitive decline and improve neuroplasticity. Some tools we integrate here at Coastal Functional Medicine include:
➔ Working with a functional health coach and nutritionist to help you make sustainable lifestyle changes: in nutrition, exercise, sleep, behavior changes, and accountability
➔ Caloric restriction and Intermittent Fasting
➔ Stress reduction tools
➔ Wearable technologies
➔ A team approach to provide you with lots of education and support
November 2024—A Time of Gratitude: What are You Grateful for? As the year winds down, November invites us to reflect on what we’re grateful for—our health, loved ones, and the opportunity to thrive.
"I Am Grateful For the Opportunity To Bring Up-to-Date Knowledge and Innovative Strategies in Brain Health and Longevity Medicine To Individuals of All Ages."—Dr. Sandra
Longevity medicine or what Peter Attia coined “Medicine 3.0” is bridging gaps in health care and offering another door for patients to age through. Aging is the greatest risk factor for most acute and chronic diseases. The unprecedented increase in the proportion of people over the age of 65 years with chronic disease across the globe, and the social and economic burden associated with aging require health care practitioners to expand their knowledge-base and leverage innovative strategies and tools to reduce overall mortality and morbidity rates in the older adult population.
“[T]he odds are overwhelming that you will die as a result of one of the chronic diseases of aging that I call the Four Horsemen: heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, or type 2 diabetes and related metabolic dysfunction. To achieve longevity—to live longer and live better for longer—we must understand and confront these causes of slow death.”― Peter Attia, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Functional and Precision Medicine should remain the foundation in chronic disease management and cancer prevention and treatment as these approaches work to alleviate symptoms, identify internal and environmental factors, high risk genetics, and treat the root causes of illness. These approaches are especially impactful by creating personalized wellness plans for individuals who want to remove toxins, treat infections naturally or with targeted pharmaceuticals, restore the immune system and microbiome, rebalance hormones, replenish nutrients, and optimize detoxification and metabolic pathways to improve cellular and mitochondrial function and reduce inflammation and oxidative stress.
Longevity Medicine is complementary and goes well beyond chronic disease management, implementing new strategies and interventions in cellular regeneration and stability for brain neuroplasticity, skeletal muscle growth and enhanced strength, energy and endurance, recovery and repair from oxidative stress, and fat loss which are all pivotal in disease and injury prevention and slows down the aging process. To date, Longevity Medicine has identified at least 9 Hallmarks of Aging along with several strategies to target them. Adding a holistic approach to Longevity Medicine helps individuals sustain disease-free states with the implementation of powerful foods and supplementation, habits and lifestyle practices that work together to ameliorate aging epigenetically. Additionally, biohacking strategies and tools and the utilization of advanced technologies provide the data for patients to make adjustments in lifestyle, stay accountable, and track their progress.
The take-home message is that the Functional and Precision Medicine approaches help us achieve disease-free states and adding the Holistic Longevity approach helps us go well beyond what we ever thought was possible – slowing down the clock for a healthy lifespan!
Are You Stocking And Saving Yet?
Whether you’re preparing for holiday gatherings, managing end-of-year stress, or setting the stage for a vibrant new year, we’ve got you covered with personalized solutions rooted in longevity medicine and functional wellness. Plus, don’t miss our Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale—an opportunity to stock up on your favorite health essentials at an incredible discount.
