American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine Spring Congress: The Metabolic Crisis

The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) will hold its annual spring congress in West Palm Beach, Florida, on May 3–5. This year’s spring congress will focus on metabolic diseases. Metabolic diseases contribute significantly to leading causes of preventable and premature deaths such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, various cancers (breast, prostate, colorectal), obesity, type 2 diabetes, and low bone mineral density. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential havoc that can be wrought by a single viral pathogen when exploiting comorbidities stemming from metabolic dysfunction. This crisis serves as a reminder of the necessity to address the fundamental issues contributing to metabolic dysfunction, especially among the younger demographic, who would otherwise face heightened vulnerability to both chronic and infectious diseases....