For years, I asked one question:
Can we intervene in aging?
As a physician and researcher, I have explored aging through mitochondria, immunity, metabolism, inflammation, and cellular stress.
But over time, my question began to change.
Why do we gradually lose the ability to recover?
Our bodies are exposed to damage every day.
Exercise.
Infection.
Inflammation.
Sleep deprivation.
Psychological stress.
And yet, the body has an extraordinary ability to repair, adapt, restore balance, and function again.
So perhaps the deeper problem of aging is not simply that damage accumulates.
Perhaps aging is the progressive loss of our capacity to recover from that damage.
This changed the way I think about anti-aging medicine.
The goal is not simply to look younger.
It is not to turn back the clock.
The goal is to preserve and restore the biological capacity to:
Repair.
Adapt.
Recover.
Function again.
I call this capacity:
Recovery Capacity.
