Hi and welcome,
I’m Dr. Lyda, the founder of UrBestNow, and I’m dedicated to helping you live a healthier, more vital life.
Precision Longevity Medicine isn’t just about adding years to your life—it’s about putting more life into your years. It focuses on achieving your best health now through personalized interventions that slow down aging and promote your overall well-being.
It’s important to understand that aging is the root cause of most diseases, and lifestyle choices impact 75% of the aging process. Personalized longevity medicine doesn’t treat diseases directly. Instead, it targets the factors that contribute to aging, using lifestyle interventions to optimize your health and healing across your entire system.
The State of Healthcare in the U.S.
The health situation in the United States is far from ideal. While we’re technologically advanced, we also face some of the highest rates of obesity and chronic disease worldwide, despite spending more on healthcare than any other country.
- 45% of Americans have at least one chronic disease such as heart disease, cancer, or diabetes.
- 71.8% of adults over 18 have at least one chronic disease.
- Aging is the primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death globally.
- Healthcare costs are unsustainable, with spending reaching $4.3 trillion in 2021 and projected to hit $6 trillion by 2028. In 2022, healthcare made up 17.3% of the U.S. GDP.
The top three drivers of healthcare costs are medical technology, chronic diseases, and administrative expenses.
What Can Precision Longevity Medicine Do to Help?
This emerging field uses a personalized and precise approach, applying biomarkers to slow down the aging process and enhance overall health and well-being. While we’re living longer, we’re not necessarily living better. There’s a gap between lifespan—the total number of years lived—and healthspan—the number of years lived free from disease, which is estimated to be just nine years. Our goal is to increase the years of life that are disease-free.
The CDC estimates that 75% of chronic diseases are driven by lifestyle factors. The good news? Each individual has the power to change the course of their health for the future.
How Can Health be Defined?
Health is more than the absence of symptoms. Symptoms indicate that there is either too much of something or something missing. Patients generally fall into one of three categories:
- Foundational healing
- Recovered health
- Resilient thriving
Healthcare is a continuum, moving from disease to balanced homeostasis, and ultimately to thriving resilience. To create this balance, we need to reduce and remove harmful factors, replace and replenish vital elements, and finally, revitalize and optimize the body.
Live longer, stronger, and more resilient. Just because someone is symptom-free doesn’t mean they’re disease-free. Precision longevity medicine aims to slow down aging and increase healthspan—the years of life spent in good health.
