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MANILA, Philippines - Anti-aging need not be cosmetic.
This is according to a boutique medical-cum-wellness center, which promises to change Filipinos' views on health care.
The LifeScience Center for Wellness and Preventive Medicine is promoting anti-aging medicine as an alternative to the disease-based approach of the medical community.
"It is something that we never had in the Philippines before. It is something that should be a cornerstone of medical practice. It is how you know which patients will respond to which medications, which patients could get which disease," said Benedict Francis Valdecanas.
This runs counter to the perception that anti-aging medicine is purely aesthetics, especially in a country where the practice has been associated with celebrity-focused, and -endorsed, cosmetic surgeries.
Valdecanas said anti-aging medicine uses some of the most advanced scientific and medical technologies to provide "customized" medication, allowing individuals to slow down their internal clocks.
"Not everybody can actually use all the vitamins that we use. That's why vitamin-taking should be personalized," he said.
In the same way, each individual is also predisposed or inclined to develop certain diseases, which can be prevented at the onset with the practice, he said.
In terms of cost, anti-aging medicine promises to be cheaper than the traditional approach of medical establishments.
For example, open-heart surgeries would cost between P500,000 and P700,000. Taking the right vitamins, supplements and lifestyle will cost less, Valdecanas said.
"The economics in anti-aging medicine is sound," he added.
Among the services offered by LifeScience are gene and food intolerance tests, and customized vitamins and medicines. It also has advanced medical equipment for surgery, intravenous therapy, dermatological treatment, among others.
Besides offering its expertise on anti-aging medicine to patients, LifeScience also conducts training workshops for local doctors on the practice, which had only been available in the United States and Europe before.
"We held this training workshop because we want to make the knowledge and training on anti-aging and preventive medicine more accessible to Filipino doctors so they can help us, their patients, do more in life," Marv Romero-Salas, LifeScience executive director, said.
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