Preventive Medicine: What You Can Do

for your own Prevention of Illness and Delay of Aging

It is extremely important that you begin the following medical regimens at the ages indicated and that you have the correct Lifestyle Habits.

Age Related Screening Tests

The American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine and other specialists in the field of Prevention have identified several important indicators of aging that should be followed by your physician or other health practitioner. These include:

Tests for your Growth Hormone Levels (HGH or IGF level)
Tests for Circulating levels of other Vitamins and Hormones in the blood
Test to tell how well your Heart functions
Test of your Lung function
Tests for your Bone Health
Nerve Conduction tests – How well your Nerves function.
Circulation tests for the Blood
Percentage of your body Fat compared to your Lean Muscle
Tests of your Muscle strength
Tests to see how quickly you can respond to a stimulus (sound, etc)
Tests of your Balance, your Coordination and our Reaction time
Basic Psychological tests

The age-related screening recommendations given below are those followed by many specialists in the field of Prevention and anti-aging medicine, including many of the specialists in the American Academy of Anti-Aging:

FOR WOMEN ONLY

Age	Sex	Frequency	Test	To Detect or Prevent

20	Women	Annually	Breast Exam	Breast Cancer
14	Women	Annually	Pap smear	Cervical Cancer
40-50	Women	Every 2 yrs	Mammography	Breast Cancer

FOR MEN ONLY

Age	Sex	Frequency	Test	To Detect or Prevent
40	Men	Annually	PSA level (Prostate Specific Antigen)	Prostate Cancer

FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN

Age	Frequency	Test	To Detect or Prevent
30-40	Every 2 years	Complete History & Physical	Multiple problems
20	Every 5 years	Homocyteine level	Heart Disease
30-34	Every 2 years	CBC, Blood Chemistry Panel	Multiple Problems Urinalysis, Blood Fat Analysis
40	Annually	Digital Rectal Examination	Prostate cancer (men)
40	Annually	Screen Stool for Blood	Colon & Rectal Cancer
50	Every 4 years	Colonoscopy	Colon & Rectal Cancer
50	Annually	Treadmill stress test	Heart Disease

Please note that these are only general recommendations and that you should discuss your specific Health Screening Regimen with your doctor based on your own risk factors. For example, if you have a family history of breast cancer, your doctor may recommend more frequent screenings for breast cancer. If you have a family history of colon cancer or other specified colon conditions, your doctor may recommend more frequent screenings for colon cancer, etc.

NON-INVASIVE SCREENING TESTS

In addition to the above Screenings, there are centers that will conduct non-invasive tests for one or more of the recognized Biomarkers of Aging. These tests will help you to compare you “Chronological” (or Real) age to your “Biological” age (the way your body actually "functions").

The H-SCAN measures as many as 12 non-invasive Biomarkers of Aging at one sitting.

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