Eulalee Thompson
THE FOUNTAIN of youth is not merely a pill you can take twice a day or a 'power punch' to be had once a week to hold back ageing cells at least, medical science has not yet formulated that kind of quick-fix anti-ageing potion. Instead,
Dr. David Garwood, anti-ageing specialist, Le Clinique Antiaging and Wellness Centre, St. Andrew, Eden Garden, said that the battle with ageing begins with individual lifestyle choices.
Adequate exercise, nutrition and supplementation can go a far way in stopping the ageing process, cell by cell, in its track. But the growing field of anti-ageing medicine has gone a step further to prevent rapid ageing. Dr. Garwood explained that cutting-edge equipment, available at Le Clinique, monitor important changes in body flow, energy and temperature, presenting early indications of diseases linked to ageing. With this early information, the specialist develops a profile of each part of the body and recommends a maintenance programme.
Some of the cutting-edge interventions mentioned by Dr. Garwood are:
Several computer-based equipment that perform quantitative fluid analysis analysing, for example, body fluids such as blood, urine, saliva.
He explained that analysis of the body fluids "gives insight into the internal terrain of the body, the environment in which our cells operate. The analysis of the body gives idea of how to convert the terrain to bring the patient back to health."
Computerised electrodermal screening (CEDS) a computer-based analysis of the energy flow pattern within the body; measuring the energy in the different body meridians. He said that this is akin to electrical measures of the heart or brain such as the
ECG (electrocardiogram) or EEG (electroencephalogram).
Thermal imaging to capture the body's temperature. Dr. Garwood said that in various disease processes, there is change in body temperature when there is pathology and he can therefore make diagnosis based on the change in thermal image.
Le Clinique, perhaps a unique centre in Jamaica and the region, is the brainchild of well-known scientist and entrepreneur, Dr. Henry Lowe, respected family physician Dr. Carmen Bowen-Wright and Dr. Garwood, is a new concept here merging conventional and alternative medical practices.
Dr. Bowen-Wright performs wellness consultations, targeting chronic, lifestyle diseases management and prevention; weight and stress management. She said that because the target is chronic diseases, it is important to see people as early as possible, as for example, diseases such as diabetes, starts it course in the young.
The anti-ageing boom is not only about the internal measures, it's about the aesthetics, how people look sucking out some fat here and there, smoothing out wrinkled skin and zapping away a spot or two. Dr. Lowe said that one of the centre's guiding mantra is "we not only make you feel good but look good." He said that the aesthetic consultation is also important, and it's not only about plastic surgery but about agents that can be injected, for example, in the face or neck to reduce
wrinkling or into the belly to melt away fat.
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