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Historian Alan Kay remarked that: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it." The A4M demonstrates future-forward innovative thinking that has not merely withstood the tests of time and scrutiny, but has flourished and proliferated into a viable model now embraced around the world.

In 1991, a group of one dozen future-forward physicians convened to discuss the wide-ranging ramifications of rapidly emerging important discoveries towards identifying the mechanisms of deterioration and vulnerability to age-related diseases. As such, this group introduced a new definition of aging. In this new perspective, the frailties and physical and mental failures associated with normal aging are caused by physiological dysfunctions that, in many cases, can be altered by appropriate medical interventions. As an extension of this redefinition, this group proposed an innovative model for healthcare that focused on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases. "Anti-aging medicine," and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), were born.

In the twenty-four years that have since followed, anti-aging medicine has achieved international recognition. Anti-aging medicine is now practiced by thousands of physicians in private medical offices, as well as at some of the most prestigious teaching hospitals around the world. Universally, those involved in healthcare, or those whose fields of expertise intersect with healthcare issues, support anti-aging medicine as a healthcare model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the healthy human lifespan. Public policy organizations and government agencies are now embracing anti-aging medicine as a viable solution to alleviate the mounting social, economic, and medical woes otherwise anticipated to arrive with the aging of nearly every nation on the planet.