Longevity Medicine

Longevity medicine incorporates innovative anti-aging techniques to help you make the most of your health and wellness. Dr. Alexis Michopoulos, DO, uses functional and integrative approaches to enhance your health and prevent diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. To learn more about how longevity medicine can help you, call the Denver, Colorado, office or book your appointment online today.

What is longevity medicine?

Longevity medicine is a specific focus within the field of preventive medicine. The main goals of preventive medicine are helping you avoid disease and maximizing your health. Longevity medicine takes it a step further by emphasizing not only living better but also living longer. 

This approach to medicine incorporates the most up-to-date scientific advances to help you achieve all your health and wellness goals. 

How can longevity medicine help me?

Many people view disease and dysfunction as inevitable side effects of aging. While it’s true that your risk of disease and dysfunction rises as you age, longevity medicine recognizes that you can control many of the factors involved. 

Longevity medicine helps you identify the controllable factors involved in disease and dysfunction. Then, you’ll learn how to slow or reverse the negative cellular changes involved in the aging process.  

Longevity medicine can help you prevent conditions such as:

• Diabetes
• High blood pressure
• Osteoporosis
• Heart disease
• Autoimmune illnesses
• Chronic fatigue
• Some types of cancer

It’s not just about helping you live longer — longevity medicine helps you thrive.

What can I expect from longevity medicine?

Longevity medicine starts with a whole-health approach. Dr. Michopoulos evaluates all aspects of your life to get a big-picture view of your health and wellness. The evaluation considers: 

• Musculoskeletal system
• Neurological system
• Heredity
• Environment
• Personal relationships
• Physical and emotional trauma
• Spiritual health

Dr. Michopoulos performs an in-depth review of your prior medical records and test results. You may need additional diagnostic tests, such as functional medicine testing, to evaluate micronutrients and determine how your body performs at a cellular level. 

Dr. Michopoulos incorporates all the gathered information, as well as a discussion about your personal health care preferences, to make personalized longevity medicine recommendations. 

Your longevity medicine plan includes a variety of personalized approaches, such as weight management, supplements, gut health balancing, and other lifestyle changes. Additionally, Dr. Michopoulos may recommend hormone replacement, osteopathic manipulation, or customized approaches based on your specific conditions or concerns. 

Ultimately, longevity medicine helps you strive for superior health, starting at a cellular level. To learn more about how longevity medicine can boost your health today and tomorrow, call Dr. Alexis Michopoulos, DO, or click on the online scheduling feature.