Holistic approach and preventative medicine is highlighted at Living Proof Longevity Centre

The success of Living Proof Longevity Centre (LPLC) is a prime example of men and women’s desire to manage actively their own aging process. Since 2000, physicians Mark McConn and Susan Merola-McConn have specialized in anti-aging and preventative medicine in a boutique medical practice located at Northeast Medical Center in Fayetteville. The practice, a division of North Medical, P.C., provides primary care as well.

With the average life expectancy now estimated at 75.8 years, anti-aging medicine is the recipient of a consumer-driven demand this country has never before experienced. More and more people recognize the value in age management — being able to affect your own aging process in a positive manner through what are now widely considered mainstream techniques and medical procedures. Many of the insights of anti-aging pioneering researchers and clinicians have become accepted scientific fact.

According to Susan Merola-McConn (Sue, as she is fondly referred to at the practice): “People realize our current U.S. health care system is based solely on treating diseases and that to live a longer, healthier life they are going to have to become proactive at preventing the disease in the first place. Our services are preventative and wellness-based and we teach our patients that aging is actually a treatable condition. We encourage our patients to laugh away the aging process and it’s easy when they feel good.”

Living Proof Longevity Centre starts with the metabolic approach to nutrition, diet, exercise and vitamin and anti-oxidant supplements and works in conjunction with the doctors’ bio-identical hormone replacement therapy expertise. The results can be significant changes in a patient’s biochemistry that helps them experience improved general health, overall moods, skin texture, and energy levels. “Our anti-aging commitment is not a fountain of youth, but it allows us to design a complex, personalized approach to each and every patient that walks through our doors at the Centre,” noted McConn.

“Dr. Sue’s holistic approach—mind, body, and spirit—truly makes a difference in my life. Thanks to balance between good nutrition, a combination of hormones compiled specifically for me, and a positive mind-set, I am living better than I have in years,” said Betsy Bedigian, 55, of Baldwinsville, a patient at Living Proof for over 10 years.

Elizabeth Mallory, 56, of Camillus, a patient of Living Proof for more than five years, says she understands exactly what that approach means. “I came to Dr. Sue for a weight loss program not realizing that it was only a small part of what I could do to impact my overall well being. Through a deliberate and personalized approach, I worked with the team to begin hormone replacement therapy, aesthetic, bariatric and Medifast services. And I have truly never felt better.”

Today, each American spends more on health care than anyone else does in the world and yet we are not much healthier as a people. Living Proof Longevity Centre believes that anti-aging medicine is the most important new health care model this country has ever seen. Their goal is not simply to prolong your years but to ensure that those years are healthy, happy and full of laughter.

For more information, call (315) 329-4975 or visit www.livingproofmd.com.