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Anti-aging medicine is a medical specialty founded on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases. It is a healthcare model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the lifespan in humans. As such, anti-aging medicine is based on principles of sound and responsible medical care that are consistent with those applied in other preventive health specialties. Because it embraces the utilization of biomedical technologies, anti-aging medicine offers a hopeful model of healthcare in which healthy human lifespans of 120 years and longer may be achieved -- if we employ anti-aging therapeutics today, and encourage the continued expansion of biomedical technologies to prevent, treat, and cure diseases.While the world's total population grows at an annual rate of 1.7%, the segment over age 65 increases by 2.5% per year. 
Developed nations, thanks in large part to their adoption of diagnostic techniques affording screening healthy and early detection of disease, have experienced a profound transformation of their demographics: nearly 20% of the developed world is age 60+. In the next 20 to 30 years, The World Health Organization projects that elderly populations in developed countries will increase by 30 to 140%, and in developing countries this bracket will grow by 200 to 400%. [World Health Organization's Ageing & Health, www.who.int/ageing/scope.html.] With a worldwide life expectancy now standing at 78.59 years (weighted average), and a projected world population exceeding 9 billion by the year 2050 [World Population 1950 to 2050. US Census Bureau, International Data Base, April 2005], the field of anti-aging medicine is witnessing unprecedented growth and acceptance.
Developed nations, thanks in large part to their adoption of diagnostic techniques affording screening healthy and early detection of disease, have experienced a profound transformation of their demographics: nearly 20% of the developed world is age 60+. In the next 20 to 30 years, The World Health Organization projects that elderly populations in developed countries will increase by 30 to 140%, and in developing countries this bracket will grow by 200 to 400%. [World Health Organization's Ageing & Health, www.who.int/ageing/scope.html.] With a worldwide life expectancy now standing at 78.59 years (weighted average), and a projected world population exceeding 9 billion by the year 2050 [World Population 1950 to 2050. US Census Bureau, International Data Base, April 2005], the field of anti-aging medicine is witnessing unprecedented growth and acceptance.
Concurrent to the longevity revolution, we are experiencing the technology revolution. New medical technologies are continually being innovated or refined such that we can improve healthcare, increase its accessibility, encourage independent living, and promote extended productivity and vitality. Emerging biotechnologies are leading the way to innovations including plentiful sources for replacement organs and tissues, interventions that help us to maintain our physical strength and mental acuity, and the end of today's incurable diseases with nanochips or genetic therapies. By embracing the adoption and utilization of technology, we foster both quantity and quality of life. As such, anti-aging medicine has become the focal point of the new biotechnological revolution. Anti-aging medical 
technologies have the potential to halt the degenerative physiology we now call "normal human aging." Anti-aging medicine promotes innovative science and research to prolong the healthy human lifespan.
technologies have the potential to halt the degenerative physiology we now call "normal human aging." Anti-aging medicine promotes innovative science and research to prolong the healthy human lifespan. Critical to the advancement of the anti-aging medical movement worldwide is the creation of The World Center for Anti-Aging Medicine. A Center of Excellence at which medical innovations relating to enhancement and/or extension of the healthy human lifespan are fostered, The World Center merges clinical and research objectives in an innovative vision of the future of medicine.