What is Anti-Aging/Regenerative/Functional Medicine?

Anti-Aging/Functional/Regenerative Medicine emphasizes disease prevention, health maintenance, and enhanced longevity by emphasizing early detection, prevention, treatment of age and lifestyle dependant physiological decline. As the average life expectancy of our population increases, Dr. Edwards and other health care providers trained in this field of medicine believe it is imperative to focus on health maintenance and disease prevention as opposed to treating disease after it has already occurred or is irreversible. This treatment approach is patient centered rather than disease focused.

Through a scientifically based, integrative approach, individually tailored interventions are designed for patients to restore physiological, psychological, and structural balance thereby allowing treatment of illness and promotion of wellness in a more physiologically sound manner.

Special attention is paid to environmental and genetic factors influencing health and disease, and intervention is aimed at lifestyle modification and optimization of physiological function to treat the underlying cause of the problem rather than to mask symptoms with inappropriate or unnecessary pharmaceutical interventions.