Lifestyle medicine at the Linus Pauling Prevention Center
Slow aging, delay illness, improve quality of life
A medical approach that focuses on what keeps people healthy
Lifestyle medicine is not a wellness trend or casual recommendation to “live healthier.” It is a science-based, physician-led approach that examines how and why lifestyle choices affect biological aging processes, epigenetic regulation, metabolic balance, immune function and cardiovascular health. The goal? Not just delay or prevent disease, but maintain functional quality of life into old age.
Prevention as top medicine
At the Linus Pauling Prevention Center, prevention is not synonymous with superficial health checks, but with in-depth medical analysis of biological aging. This includes the use of the following techniques:
– Analysis of biological aging (epigenetic clocks, telomere dynamics)
– Preventive imaging (such as coronary calcium score, whole-body MRI, DEXA)
– In-depth blood analyses of nutrient status, metabolic markers and inflammation parameters
– Functional diagnostics (such as HRV, microcirculation, glucose response, mitochondrial function)
– Personalized lifestyle advice and counseling, focusing on nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress regulation, social connection and meaning
The physician as guide in a personalized health pathway
Every patient is unique. The role of the physician at our center shifts from “practitioner of disease” to guide in health. From an informed dialogue, we guide patients in making choices that fit their genetic, epigenetic and psychosocial context. This guidance is not paternalistic, but co-creative: we make the patient a player in his or her health again.
– Analysis of biological aging (epigenetic clocks, telomere dynamics)
– Preventive imaging (such as coronary calcium score, whole-body MRI, DEXA)
– In-depth blood analyses of nutrient status, metabolic markers and inflammation parameters
– Functional diagnostics (such as HRV, microcirculation, glucose response, mitochondrial function)
– Personal lifestyle advice and counseling, focusing on nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress regulation, social connection and meaningfulness
Aging as an influenceable process
Aging is not a fatality, but a dynamic and partly influenceable process. The science of biogerontology teaches us that many aging mechanisms – such as