Getting older doesn’t have to result in health concerns. While cardiovascular health, cognitive decline, and bone health can decline with age, this is far from inevitable.

It’s possible to slow down the development of age-related health problems so that you feel healthier and fitter for longer and enjoy a good quality of life into your senior years.

It starts with optimizing your health so that the risk of age-related health problems can be reduced.

Unlike conventional medicine, the functional medicine approach to senior health doesn’t involve the use of medications (many of which can have significant side effects).

Instead, we focus on optimized nutrition with food as medicine and the use of personalized supplements, herbs, and lifestyle changes to avoid or manage the health problems that can commonly affect seniors.

This can reduce the need for medications (especially medications for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and arthritis) or avoid them completely by getting to the root cause of why these conditions have developed in the first place. Medications are merely masking symptoms rather than addressing the underlying causes of disease and dysfunction.

Genetics, nutrient imbalances, blood sugar imbalances, gut health, inflammation levels, stress levels, poor detoxification pathways, exposure to toxins and heavy metals, previous infection, and lifestyle factors can affect cardiovascular health, joint and bone health, and cognitive health.

By addressing imbalances in the body, we can manage (and sometimes resolve) many senior health problems and help you to feel fitter and healthier as you get older. If you haven’t started to experience age-related health problems, we can keep it that way so that you stay healthier for longer.

With a functional medicine approach to senior health, it’s possible to enjoy your twilight years and maybe add years to your life too.