Real anti-aging can’t be found in a cream.

Done correctly, an anti-aging lifestyle reduces the age of your brain, skin and all organs so you can live a healthier, and probably longer life too. Extending your health-span is the most desirable goal – the years that you are free of chronic disease.

To achieve this, there are many aspects to improve from improved metabolic function, to physical strength, fitness and mental health for example.

Naturopath and founding director Graeme Bradshaw has curated a comprehensive yearlong anti-aging program. Each step will be personalised based on your goals and test results.

A personalised programme to reverse your biological clock

Did you know you can measure, and reverse, how fast your body ages?

Measuring the “methylation” of your DNA is a good guide to your “biological age”. This is a finger prick blood sample done by TRUDiagnostics. It determines your biological age with this method and adds several other ways, such as telomere length, to determine your biological age in the test results as well.

Risks of age-related illness are readily determined too by the commonly available measures in a comprehensive blood test. Assessing these more carefully than is usually done, along with knowing your blood pressure, weight and abdominal circumference can give us several clear ways to reduce your rate of aging when corrected. This is the means of delaying most chronic disease. Diet, fitness and lifestyle are key tools for this. You will be guided to your optimal diet and nutrition plan, figure out your exercise routines, and offered other supportive ways towards your weight goals.

Outside of correcting these metabolic risks we may need to add any bio-identical hormones and health supplements you may need. These may include anti-aging stem cell stimulating peptides. For optimal anti-aging upregulating your immunity with peptides is offered. Finally NAD+ and glutathione levels optimisation are measured and optimal levels of these cell protective enzymes achieved.

Testing

The tests offered will look at your DNA-related biological age (TruAge by TruDiagnostic is the one we use). It adds several other tests in addition to the methylation method:  Cellular Senescence (aging of the immune cells), the DunedinPACE, the Harvard OCIMage, and your Telomere length.

Also a comprehensive Path Lab blood test is recommended or to use your own recent report, which will likely need some hormone testing to be complete.

Ideally, as add on options to these fundamental tests during the year long program, we also look at your gut microbiome (with qPCR related stool test, the GI Map). To be thorough, an Advanced Oxidative Stress Test, which determines your glutathione and any oxidative stress to your cells and your DNA is done once most treatments are in place to determine if these are sufficient to protect your cells from oxidative damage. NAD+ (the enzyme stimulated by NMN and Niagen) is ideally measured and optimised if needed.

Additionally options on testing are for genetic factors which influence your aging (DNA Health, DNA Diet) can be done. More sensitive hormone testing is another option (DUTCH Test) and bone density measures are relevant for women over 50, and men over 65.

Most of these test choices are linked at the bottom of the article.

Creating a treatment plan

Graeme will use data from your test results in tandem with the goals you set to find the right course of treatment for you.

Your nutritional regimen will be tailored to your genetics. A plan for exercise will be established, ensuring that it’s enjoyable and attainable so you can remain consistent.

As directed by test results, your gut health will be rebalanced and levels of good bacteria in your gut replenished.

Your treatment plan will include clinical grade supplements and herbs, as well as nutritional peptides to stimulate stem cell activation, which can help delay and reverse the aging process.

Near infrared and light therapy will also be included, to rejuvenate skin and thyroid health.

Your treatment plan may also involve detoxification as this helps reduce oxidative stress, a key factor in aging.

Your treatment plan won’t tackle all these areas at once – you will add things to your regimen bit by bit so each stage feels manageable.

Measuring results

You’ll define measurable results with Graeme and check in 3 months after start of your treatment with follow-up blood tests. After these 3 months, you will be noticing the difference in your physical and mental wellbeing. It will be likely that you have better mental clarity, more energy and improved fat to muscle ratio as the months pass by.

After 6 months you’re your main metabolic markers can be retested, and at 1 year we check your biological age to measure your DNA biological age reversal.

Test options:

• TRUDiagnostics TruAge
• PathLab blood tests (any blood tests that include: Lipids and Triglycerides, Liver Function Test, Creatinine, Uric acid, HbA1c and Glucose, Homocysteine, TSH, Free Testosterone, Estrogen, Progesterone, ultrasensitive CRP, a Complete Blood Count, ESR, Ferritin, Vitamin D & Vitamin B12. Ideally also Free T4, Free T3, DHEA, APO-B & Lp(a), PSA (males), and Ca 125 (females).
• Diagnostic Solutions Metabolomics OMX: it is helpful for determining Mitochondrial health and many nutritional deficiencies. (sample)
• DNA Health (sample), another option is DNA Diet (sample).
• Diagnotic Solutions GI Map – Gut Health (sample)
• Advanced Oxidative Stress (sample)
• DUTCH Complete Hormone Testing. (women sample) | (male sample)

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