A Functional Medicine approach to longevity & health optimisation #shorts

Longevity is all the rage, which is wonderful. But rather than running behind shiny objects (ie fancy drugs/ tools), the most powerful strategies to improve health span are the basics! Longevity research (=geroscience) has found 12 hallmarks of aging, that underlie all the different ‘ill health’ trajectories, be it cancers, strokes and heart attacks or neurodegeneration like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Now there are 2 ways of addressing these hallmarks (examples being inflammation, faulty protein accumulation, gut microbiome imbalances and more), 1) being to develop drugs to suppress that one pathway (for example autophagy drugs, that support the body’s clean up mechanism, getting rid of faulty and mutated cells), but that can have side effects elsewhere, or 2) Looking at the root cause thereof and addressing to stop it from occurring in the first place. Examples being Why is there inflammation?, Gut problems? Faulty protein accumulation?- and address those. - Ie overeating, chronic infections, circadian misalignment, hidden food intolerances, not enough fiber, too much sugar, constant snacking, not enough sleep/ exercise/ daylight and sunshine/ love/ purpose, too much stress/ a toxic environment including heavy metals/ plastics/ draining people, etc! I’ll be running a few workshops (both in person and on zoom) in the new year on a root cause approach to longevity & health optimisation, DM me if you’d like to attend! ❤️🙏🏼 #longevity #healthoptimisation #functionalmedicine #rootcausemedicine #healthspan #rootcauseprotocol #inflammation #inflammaging #functionalmedicinelondon #longevitylondon