Integrative medicine and aging prevention: state-of-the-art

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Health care focuses primarily on the treatment and prevention of specific diseases, while there are very few high-quality studies of the prevention of aging and the maintenance of high quality of life (or improvement) in healthy people. This review considers the most effective and evidence-based integrative medicine methods used in apparently healthy people for their health improvement.

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Ya. I. Ashikhmin

“Pervaya Liniya” (First Line) Health Care Resort; Center for Healthcare Quality Assessment and Control of the Ministry of Health of the Russia

Author for correspondence.
Email: ya.ashikhmin@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1243-5701

Candidate of Medical Sciences

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg; Moscow

A. K. Ratnikova

“Pervaya Liniya” (First Line) Health Care Resort; L.G. Sokolov North-Western District Research and Clinical Center, Federal Biomedical Agency of Russia

Email: ya.ashikhmin@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3279-6448

Candidate of Medical Sciences

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg; Saint Petersburg

O. V. Felsendorff

“Pervaya Liniya” (First Line) Health Care Resort; Saint Petersburg State University

Email: ya.ashikhmin@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5986-5138

Candidate of Psychological Sciences

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg; Saint Petersburg

A. Y. Melnikov

Guta Clinic

Email: ya.ashikhmin@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8204-8005
Russian Federation, Moscow

O. N. Dikur

Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова (Сеченовский Университет)

Email: ya.ashikhmin@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4442-6447

Candidate of Medical Sciences

Russian Federation

M. O. Grudina

“Pervaya Liniya” (First Line) Health Care Resort

Email: ya.ashikhmin@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1607-3576
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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2. Fig. 1. Health management matrix. The matrix is built on the principles of personalized, participatory, preventive, and predictive (P4) medicine (©First Line)

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3. Fig. 2. Health management as a tool of exposure (©First Line)

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4. Fig. 3. Framework for a future preventive approach. Different scientists put slightly different meanings into the concept of "biohacking"; it, in the most general sense, is the modification of the healthy human body, which is aimed at improving its functions (©First Line)

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5. Fig. 4. Key pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms of aging; the productivity of a response of all body systems to various factors of stress is an important factor determining the rate of aging

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