Clinical Antiaging Medicine: Antiaging Medicine from the Perspective of the Digestive System
摘要
The digestive system, which includes the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus, as well as the liver, pancreas, and other solid organs connected to it, significantly affects healthy longevity as its function declines with age, a time-dependent natural physiological process, and various diseases develop and progress. Particularly in Japan, where super-aging is advancing, it has been clearly shown that the onset and progression of several digestive diseases, which are significantly increasing, can be suppressed by appropriate antiaging interventions centered on lifestyle corrections, contributing to healthy longevity. Therefore, in this section, I would like to touch on representative digestive diseases whose incidence increases with age.