What Is Anti-Aging Medicine?

Anti-aging medicine is a form of preventive medicine and a part of longevity science. It views aging as a disease and aims for healthy longevity through interdisciplinary practice based on longevity research. Furthermore, in recent years, treatments that reverse aging by reprogramming using Yamanaka factors have begun to be performed. Therefore, the field of anti-aging medicine has become a field aiming not only for interventions in aging-related diseases and extending the maximum lifespan but also for true rejuvenation using regenerative medicine. About 20% of aging is related to genes, and about 80% is said to be environmental factors. In the past 100 years or so, the maximum lifespan of humans has not changed much, around 120 years, but the average lifespan has rapidly extended. Japan has a long average lifespan, but there is a gap in the healthy lifespan. Anti-aging medicine aims to reduce this gap and extend the healthy lifespan. In other words, the primary goal is to aim for a sudden death in old age (PPK).