Throughout history and in folklore, numerous people have sought the Fountain of Youth. This isn’t surprising as some bodily functions deteriorate as we age. On the flipside, we have acquired knowledge and skills—having built our lives—and we want to enjoy old age, not suffer from aches and pains, or look permanently tired.

As a result, people at times go to extreme lengths to stay or look young, ranging from surgery to blood transfusions. Some of these interventions might help, others are experimental and come with extreme risks. Some even lack scientific backup that they actually work!

Thankfully, a lot of scientific research has been done into aging…and how to prevent or even reverse some of the biological mechanisms involved in the aging process.

“And this is an important thing to understand before we even begin to look at how to reverse aging—it’s not one biological process that causes aging, but a plethora of different ones.”

All the different processes in our body are interlinked, so if you support one, you support the rest. However, to achieve potent results, you need to support more than one process. Think of it like an ecosystem—all the different parts need to function optimally to create a well-working system.

Even what we consider as “one” process in the body, usually happens through different pathways. For example, for metabolism to take place a number of different biological processes occur in the body. And if you want to speed up or slow down the metabolic rate, you can sometimes do so by speeding up or slowing down one single process, or you can look at affecting several processes.

This is what we refer to as the multi-pathway approach to treating disease, or improving health and vitality. Others might use terms like a “holistic” approach, but we want to really zero in on the different biological processes that directly affect one thing or another, so we think this is a more apt description.

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