Specific supplements
There are also specific anti-aging supplements and hormones that are used for each gender. For instance to beat the effects of menopause, there is estrogen and Menopausal Replacement Therapy. These were originally thought to decrease the risk of heart disease but in fact, they could increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and blood clots. Doctors recommend that you use these in the smallest doses for the shortest period of time. As with most anti-aging supplements, the dosage is crucial. It needs to be monitored very carefully because if there’s even a slight skew in how much you take in, your body will feel the difference immediately – and protest! Men are sometimes recommended a testosterone supplementation and although there is little evidence of its negative effects at the moment, there are signs that it could be linked to prostate cancer.
The thing to remember about anti-aging supplements is that they might improve the quality of your life, but they don’t ensure that you live longer. There hasn’t been enough research done on the long-term effects of injecting hormones, especially when these are unnatural and don’t match the molecular structure of what your body might naturally have produced.
