Anti-Aging medicine was founded on the principle that aging is a disease that is amenable to treatment. Although age is inevitable, aging is not and the aging process in pets, as in people can be slowed, halted and in some cases, even reversed.
This principle has already been documented in laboratory animals and humans. For example, rats and mice that have been subjected to caloric restriction live on average twice as long and experience far less cancer and chronic disease.
The genetic engineering of three genes associated with aging in worms increased their natural life span by five years. Natural, bio-identical hormone replacement therapy in humans has already turned back biologic clocks by 10-30 years for millions of people.
My clinical research has shown that many of these same aging principles and anti-aging therapies are equally applicable to pets. In fact, a recently published study validated the fact that keeping female dogs intact and not spaying them prior to age 4, increases the healthy canine life span by 30 percent and reduces the incidence of long bone abnormalities, cancer and behavioral disorders.
Medical technology doubles every 3.5 years which means that as our knowledge of health and aging continues, so do the implications for your pet’s potential healthy life span.
Dr. Carol Osborne, DVM
http://www.carolonpets.com
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