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Age Management - The Costs and Benefits

Updated on 29th October 2008 by Alistair Tweed.

There are costs and benefits involved in staying younger for longer.

Costs

The costs are time, money and energy. In practice, very few of us have lots of spare time, money and energy concurrently. Usually, it can feel as though we have a little of two or, as is often the case in today's busy world, a little of one. Some of the time, you may even feel you have none of any!

Time
You will need to spend time exercising and in sourcing good quality food. Supplementation can minimise the impact of reduced quality food, but you will still need to spend time shopping for and preparing optimal nutrition.

Money
There is a financial cost involved in implementing a proactive health and age management regime involving:

Exercise - there may be gym costs if that is your chosen method of exercise.
High quality nutrition - you will need to spend more to get higher quality, fresh food.
Well designed supplementation - reputable purveyors of quality supplements need to charge appropriately for their products and services.

Energy
Needless to say, exercise requires considerable amounts of energy expenditure. The more the better!

Benefits

Strangely, some of the benefits can actually be categorized in exactly the same way as the costs.

Time
It is often said that time is money. It may well be that in the world we which we now inhabit, that time and money are becoming increasingly interchangeable. If so, it may be true that money is time:

How much would you be prepared to pay for 10 enjoyable, disease free years at age sixty eight?
How much is it worth to have all your faculties still intact at age seventy eight?
What would you pay for another 10 years of quality time with your family at this age?

Peter J. Neumann, director of a program at Tufts-New England Medical Center that measures the cost-effectiveness of new treatments, said that studies of real-world situations produce relatively consistent results, suggesting that average Americans value a year of life at $100,000 to $300,000.

The implementation of a successful age management regime has the potential of offering an additional number of healthy years to your life span. A recent study by University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council in the English county of Norfolk involving 20,000 people indicated that by making a few simple lifestyle adjustments such as eating 5 portions of fruit and vegetables per day can add up to 14 years to your life. At aging-management.com, we think that we can improve on that. What would you do with another 20 years? If money is time, perhaps it is also becoming freedom too.

Money
One can spend a reasonable amount of money on gym membership, food and supplements. But ask yourself the following questions:

If your chosen age management regime were to help you live another 20 years, how much will your pension pay out over that time?
What is the cost of the nursing home that is going to provide you with care you consider adequate, if and when you are no longer able to care for yourself? Never mind any other considerations, in financial terms, how much is it worth to avoid some or all of this expense?
Should you have a job you enjoy and have a body and mind that are still healthy, vigorous and highly functional, you could continue working. If you live and work 20 years longer in good health, how much more could you earn during that time?

Just consider the first point. Say, for example, your pension will pay out £20,000 per year. If your chosen age management regime were to help you live another 20 years, in just the first year, you are likely to have paid for decades worth of sporting costs, increased quality food and supplements. By implementing a comprehensive age management regime, not only are you likely to live long enough to be able to draw down far more than what you would spend on these things per year in pension payments, you will also be healthy enough to actually enjoy spending the pension that you have worked so hard for.

Does a modest yearly expenditure on gyms, good food and high quality supplements still seem expensive for something that could deliver even a fraction of just one the three points above?

Energy
Implementing a proactive age management regime will give you better health in the present. Your cardiovascular system will be in better shape going forward, meaning you will stay in better physical shape and be able to be more active. Many of the nutraceuticals in a comprehensive anti-aging strategy are cognitive enhancers, which means that you will perform better both in your job and your everyday life and are likely to be happier.

Optimising your physical and mental health in this way means that you will have far higher levels of energy for longer. More youthful energy available for you to enjoy your life and longevity as you please.

The Take Home Message
It is difficult to put a price on any of the benefits discussed, but it should be becoming clear to you that proactive health management and intelligent and judicious supplementation are not just sensible life style choices, but that the benefits repay the investment of time, money and energy many, many times over.

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