It's interesting to see where the American Academy for Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) is going with their messaging these days: "By Klatz's definition, anti-aging is any intervention that has to do with early detection, prevention or reversal of age-related conditions and diseases. ... Klatz envisions an era of technologies that will slow or even reverse the 'dysfunction' he calls aging - or what everyone else simply calls the process of life." This Digital Journal article is an interesting mix of right on the money and a conflation or papering over of the old, bad "anti-aging" marketplace - a staple of the A4M conferences - with the meaningful science of the future. Some mix of rebranding and repurposing at work, in other words; A4M has always been an organization with the potential to do far more good for the future of real anti-aging medicine than they are in fact doing.
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The Public Face of A4M
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