How to prevent most common diseases that shorten and diminish the quality of life of older people has been the subject of debate at the Eighth Congress of the Spanish Society of Anti-Aging Medicine and Longevity (SEMAL) held recently in Seville. The experts at these conferences have debated the best methods to avoid developing cardiovascular disease, cancer, Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases associated with old age like Alzheimer’s.
One of the issues addressed in the congress was orthomolecular nutrition and its therapeutic power to achieve optimal health. This discipline maintains that the diet should be customized and respecting each person’s biochemical individuality, thus only can get that nutrition becomes a source of energy and vitality and that the person is in a state of harmony.
Along with this practice has also been covered therapeutic use of antioxidants to prevent aging, and other issues that directly affect the health of the elderly such as sexuality and genetics.
Regenerative medicine, which uses the natural capacity of the tissues that form part of our body are renewed car has been another theme of the meeting actors. This process occurs through the ability to regenerate cells and has opened a new formula for repairing damaged tissues.
The use of antioxidants such as resveratrol, a food of plant origin derived entirely from the skin and seeds of grapes, which presents a very favorable result from the effects that free radicals produced in our body, and melatonin, another potent antioxidant that helps induce sleep and fatigue recovery has been one of the topics discussed in the medical encounter in which he has presented the most innovative treatments in the field of anti-aging medicine.
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