Science is going to the DOGS

I was looking up an article on Wikipedia about age management medicine and witnessed a hate campaign by mainstream medicine against this emerging specialty. It reminded me of the way Dr. Semmelweis was treated by his colleagues when he told them it might cut down on disease transmission if the doctors washed their hands in chlorinated lime solution between pelvic examinations in labor and delivery. Ignorance in academia is pervasive. That is not to say that all the crapola that anti-aging medicine societies spout is GOSPEL. Clearly, in this subject as in almost everything else in the Universe, there is a large middle ground in which the truth lies.

Trying to create immortality through medical prescriptions seems unlikely at least until we understand stem cells better and why Salamanders can regenerate legs, tails and most everything else.

Completely dismissing the positive effects of a low glycemic index diet, resistance and cardiovascular exercise, at least making sure that all the vitamins and minerals missing in the average American diet are supplemented, and not being fat headed about Hormone Replacement Therapy in both women (very common) and men (becoming more popular) are not bad ideas. Some of the things I have read from conventional medicine is downright IGNORANT. I guess the medical schools are to blame because what they teach you is to do nothing until a disease appears, then do surgery, or prescribe medicines to treat it. In other words... eat like a pig and then when you get heart disease we can do a cardiac catheterization, put in a couple of stents, or do a bypass graft. Got diabetes? We'll just give you insulin. No problem. Does this sound like what you want for yourself? Wouldn't you rather prevent disease than treat it with all the side effects of medicine where you have to take a blood pressure pill, a heart pill, a sugar control pill, and a pill to counteract the effects of the other pills?