Longevity and Anti-Aging in Atlanta, GA

Longevity medicine, also known as anti-aging medicine, aims to stop diseases before they start. This includes the chronic illnesses that significantly alter many people’s lives, including cancer, neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome. Dr. Jason Bailey has nearly 30 years of hospital experience, caring for patients whose lives were impacted by serious medical events and chronic disease. His work as a primary care physician and hospitalist led him to start Wellspring MD here in Atlanta in order to offer personalized, preventative primary care and longevity medicine, empowering his patients to stay healthier for longer.

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What is Longevity Medicine?

Most people do not experience personalized, investigative medical care until later in their lives when an acute medical event occurs. Longevity medicine aims to offer in-depth preventative care long before risk factors or systemic imbalances become health crises.  The goal of longevity medicine is not to prevent aging altogether or to improve appearance; it is to help patients stay healthy as they age.

Longevity medicine distinguishes between how long we live and how well we live. While conventional medicine has the ability to extend people’s life expectancy, it does not always improve their quality of life. This distinction has been summarized by longevity medicine expert Peter Attia as healthspan versus lifespan. Healthspan is the length of time that a person lives a healthy, functional life without experiencing chronic disease or a significant deterioration in their mental or physical ability. Lifespan refers to the length of years they are alive. Ideally, medicine should help narrow the difference between a person’s healthspan and lifespan. However, much of conventional medicine is reactive. Once an illness or acute health event occurs, it offers patients medication and surgery. Advances in reactive medicine include surgery, antibiotics, and chemotherapy. These medical techniques increase many people’s lifespan significantly. However, these life-saving techniques do not prevent disease, and they do not undo the effects of chronic disease, which many people live with for the last several decades of their lives.  Peter Attia identifies four main chronic diseases: heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative conditions, and metabolic syndrome. These conditions are interlinked; for example, metabolic syndrome is one of the main risk factors for the other three categories of chronic disease.

The key to preventing these diseases lies in the three building blocks of health: physical health, cognitive health, and emotional health. To maintain long-term health and reduce risk, longevity medicine focuses on five opportunities for prevention: exercise, nutrition, sleep and stress, mental and emotional health, and medications and supplements. By identifying their personal risk level and supporting lifestyle changes, longevity medicine helps patients age healthily. At Wellspring MD, we believe that the best medical care integrates longevity medicine with primary care to help patients improve both their lifespan and healthspan.  If you would prefer to keep working with your current primary care provider, we offer several membership options to allow you to customize your care. We offer personalized, accessible longevity medicine alongside primary care and functional medicine to help you take control of your health and your future. 

What is Anti-Aging Medicine?

Anti-aging medicine is another way of referring to longevity medicine. While some anti-aging clinics focus on cosmetic procedures, anti-aging medical clinics offer proactive medical treatment to reduce risk. We offer our patients the opportunity for healthy aging, helping them maintain their physical, mental, and emotional health for as long as possible. We test for hundreds of biomarkers, screen for cancers earlier, assess our patients’ physical fitness to reduce risk, offer cognitive testing, and recommend lifestyle changes to improve total health. At our anti-aging clinic, this involves providing access to biometric analysis, in-depth laboratory testing, advanced biological age measurement, and early, regular screening for cancer and other chronic diseases.

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What Do Longevity And Anti-Aging Doctors Do?

Doctors who offer longevity medicine offer patients personalized, preventative care. We pay close attention to the factors that allow chronic conditions to develop. For example, cardiovascular disease is often a result of lifestyle factors such as fitness and nutrition. Preventing this involves an in-depth understanding of glucose and insulin levels as well as ideal aerobic fitness levels. Dr. Bailey tests for these risk factors early to help patients correct concerning trends and improve their long-term health. For example, hormone changes in women are one of the main factors that lead to osteoporosis and also contribute to weight gain, metabolic syndrome, sleep deprivation, and increased stress, among other conditions. We address this by prescribing bioidentical hormone replacement therapy: sustainable, carefully adjusted hormone doses that deliver safe risk reduction without side effects.

Longevity doctors also provide in-depth information to their patients about their health. We do not just offer access to testing; we also review your results with you to help determine exactly which genetic, nutritional, or environmental factors are contributing to your risk. This allows us to develop lifestyle modifications that may include nutrition changes, fitness plans, medications, or supplements for nutritional deficiencies. You cannot be proactive if you are not informed, so we make advances in longevity medicine accessible and personal to help you implement the changes that really matter.

Why Should I Join an Anti-Aging Clinic in Atlanta?

If you are not sure whether anti-aging medicine is for you, ask yourself if you fit into any of these categories:

  • You have a history of cancer, neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, or metabolic syndrome in your family, and are wondering about your level of risk. 
  • You are curious about what types of fitness and nutrition are actually effective for reducing chronic risk and prolonging health. 
  • You are sick of following fad diets or fitness trends and ready to find out what actually works for your body. 
  • You are ready to partner with a medical team that investigates your health and designs personalized lifestyle recommendations for everything from medication and supplements to your protein intake and your cardio workout routine. 
  • You are entering perimenopause, menopause, or postmenopause and want to ensure that all of your hormones are balanced in a precise, personalized way to alleviate symptoms and restore energy levels and sleep quality. 
  • You are struggling with weight management and want to safely and sustainably reduce your risk of metabolic syndrome. 
  • It is becoming difficult to maintain your fitness and nutrition as you age, and you would like to comprehensively review your nutrition, hormone levels, and physical fitness. 
  • You want access to early, in-depth screening for cancer, neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome. 
  • You are ready to optimize your exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress levels, mental and emotional health, and medication and supplement routines to improve your daily and long-term health.

What are the Benefits of Longevity And Anti-Aging Medicine?

Longevity medicine, when it is combined with traditional primary care, offers patients benefits that can affect most aspects of their lives.

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Advanced medical research

Although medical research continues to make significant advances, traditional medicine has not kept up with or implemented these advances. Dr. Jason Bailey’s focus on staying up to date with advances in medical research has led him to open Wellspring MD, offering up-to-date risk screening and preventive care. We also offer our patients an exclusive wellness program, which includes personalized, science-based nutritional counselling with Dr. Ranya Bailey, as well as newsletters that help you stay up to date on medical research and provide scientific commentary on wellness trends. Rather than missing out on advanced medical care, consider joining an anti-aging clinic that cares about your long-term health.

Longevity Lab Testing and Chronic Disease Risk Reduction

Chronic diseases do not strike out of nowhere. Rather, they develop slowly due to risk factors that are present for most people’s entire lives. The main goal of longevity medicine is to improve long-term health by identifying and reducing risk over time. Each patient’s level of risk of developing a chronic disease can be calculated based on factors including their family history, lifestyle choices, and biological markers. Longevity medicine aims to educate patients about their risk factors, screen for biomarkers of chronic disease, and treat early signs of the four following disease categories:

Cancer

Risk factors include genetic risks, family history, and environmental factors, such as diet or exposure to tobacco and other chemicals. We offer patients regular, early screening and can recommend lifestyle modifications to minimize risk.

Neurodegenerative Disease

Risk factors include insulin resistance, poor vascular health, and poor sleep quality, as well as cardiovascular or metabolic issues. We help patients assess their wellness and cognitive function and implement personalized lifestyle modifications, and screen for early markers of neurodegenerative diseases.

Proactive, Preventative Care

In addition to helping you understand your risk, we also help you address risk factors and modify your lifestyle to optimize your health now and in the future. The thorough blend of primary, longevity, and functional medicine that we offer allows us to help you address serious conditions as well as dive into lifestyle changes with you and find effective, sustainable prevention strategies. We only recommend the tests, lifestyle changes, medications, and supplements that are specific to your risk factors. We don’t want to just see you in our office when something goes wrong; our goal is to help you take control of your health and maintain it as you age.

Increased Healthspan and Lifespan

Many people associate aging with loss: loss of their physical ability, loss of their cognitive ability, and loss of their ability to enjoy and have agency in their own lives. While aging does bring many changes, we believe that everyone should have the chance to age with intention. Our longevity clinic offers patients the chance to partner with a doctor dedicated to helping them maintain their health, vitality, and strength for as long as possible.

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Wellspring MD’s Longevity and Anti-Aging Clinic in Atlanta

At our longevity and anti-aging clinic, we treat serious health conditions before they occur. We do this by screening patients more thoroughly and often than traditional medical clinics. Not only do we help you identify any risk factors, but we also help you be proactive about your health. By focusing on the five pillars of longevity medicine, as defined by Peter Attia, we help you avoid chronic disease and improve your health span.

Exercise

By optimizing your exercise routine, you can maintain strength, aerobic fitness, flexibility, and grip strength as you age. This helps you reduce the risk of falls, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease, and cancer. Physical fitness and flexibility are also crucial to promote emotional health and maintain independence. We provide you with scientifically informed aerobic and strength training goals personalized to reduce your risk and help you meet age-specific fitness targets. We provide the following assessments to help you assess your physical fitness and increase your healthspan:

  • Body composition scans for muscle mass, bone density, and fat distribution
  • VO2 max testing
  • Resting metabolic rate testing

Nutrition

Proper nutrition can help you maintain a healthy weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose levels, and insulin levels. This reduces your risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Ranya Bailey offers nutritional therapy to make nutrition and weight management sustainable for our members. She provides tailored lifestyle modifications based on advanced research and lab work. The testing we recommend includes the following assessments:

  • In-depth nutrition testing through a functional medicine lab
  • Gut health and microbiome testing
  • Advanced lab testing to recommend a personalized, pharmaceutical-grade supplement routine

Sleep and Stress

Managing stress and focusing on sleep quality helps reduce your risk for almost every chronic disease, as well as lowering your risk of mental health conditions and immunosuppression. We use the following tools to assess your stress levels, identify factors that may be causing stress, and improve sleep quality:

  • Hormone testing for the sex hormones (estrone, estradiol, estriol, progesterone, testosterone) and adrenal/melatonin hormones (cortisol, DHEA, melatonin)
  • Microbiome testing to investigate the gut-brain axis
  • Sleep questionnaires and calculator
  • Insomnia severity index
  • Nutritional therapy

Mental and Emotional Health

While conventional medicine often focuses on physical symptoms, longevity medicine research shows that your mental and emotional health play a pivotal role in how you age. Our functional wellness and nutrition coaching includes assessing and managing sleep quality, gut health, and inflammation, all of which significantly contribute to improved mental health. We also provide referrals to mental health professionals, including both traditional and functional mental health practitioners, and regularly review any medications you are on to minimize side effects. By preventing and treating chronic disease, we help reduce the loss of ability and agency that contributes to depression and anxiety for many people as they age.

Medications and Supplements

It’s common to accumulate prescriptions and supplements as you age without knowing for sure what is working and what is causing more complications. Additionally, anti-aging supplements are more popular than ever before, and it can be hard to tell which products are based on scientific research. At our longevity clinic, we never recommend medications or supplements without running advanced lab work first. We work with commercial pharmacies, a compounding pharmacy, and a pharmaceutical-grade supplement supplier to recommend precisely adjusted dosages that target your risk factors. We also provide unlimited virtual and in-person consultations to review and adjust your medications.

Membership-Based Anti-Aging and Primary Care Clinic

To provide in-depth medical care that integrates primary care and longevity medicine, we provide annual memberships and accept a limited number of patients. We offer discounted memberships for children ages 7-21 and young adults ages 22-25 to make comprehensive care available to your whole family. This membership-based model, known as concierge medicine, allows Dr. Jason Bailey to offer his patients same-day or next-day appointments, virtual care, extensive annual physicals, and more. If you are interested in longevity medicine but would prefer to remain with your current primary care provider, our Wellspring Vital membership tier might be right for you. Joining our clinic provides you with access to extensive testing, unhurried appointments, and an advanced medical model that combines functional medicine, longevity medicine, primary care, and nutritional therapy.

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Join Wellspring MD for Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine in Atlanta, GA

If you are ready to benefit from advances in medical research and take control of your future health, you’ve come to the right place. At Wellspring MD, Dr. Jason Bailey offers his patients in-depth, personalized care to improve their healthspan and help them stay healthier for longer. To learn more about what is included in the memberships we offer at our anti-aging clinic in Atlanta, book a discovery call today.

FAQs

How much does longevity medicine cost?

The cost of longevity medicine is different depending on the clinic or provider you receive care from. At Wellspring MD, we provide longevity medicine services for an annual membership fee. You can select our Wellspring Vital membership to focus on longevity medicine and functional medicine, or you can select the Wellspring Complete membership to have Dr. Jason Bailey as your primary care provider as well. Our fee covers the cost of unhurried, unlimited telehealth and in-person appointments with Dr. Jason Bailey, nutrition and wellness counselling with Dr. Ranya Bailey, as well as primary care and functional medicine. While you may have to pay out of pocket or bill your insurance for tests that we cannot perform in our office, we offer discounted, convenient testing. To learn more, explore our membership page or book a discovery call today. 

Is longevity medicine covered by health insurance?

Some aspects of longevity medicine may be covered by your health insurance, but coverage varies between providers. Check with your insurance provider or call us to learn more. We offer our members discounted longevity medicine testing and help you identify which tests and lifestyle modifications are the most effective in order to help you maximize your investment in your health.

Can I see Dr. Jason Bailey for only longevity medicine?

Since longevity medicine involves testing for serious chronic diseases, we believe that it is best integrated with primary care. However, if you are only looking for longevity medicine, explore our membership page or book a discovery call with Dr. Jason Bailey to learn about our Wellspring Vital membership, which focuses on longevity medicine and functional medicine

What is longevity medicine?

Longevity medicine treats disease before it occurs. By testing for chronic diseases, assessing your health, and recommending lifestyle changes, longevity medicine provides science-based care that helps patients maintain their cognitive, physical, and mental health.

What is the best longevity supplement?

There is no single supplement that can reduce the chances of developing a chronic disease. The best supplement routine is one that has been carefully developed with your doctor to target your specific deficiencies, symptoms, and risk factors. At Wellspring MD, we recommend pharmaceutical-grade supplements after running labs to make sure that whatever you are taking is actually effective.

What do longevity doctors do?

Longevity doctors help their patients improve their healthspan by testing for chronic disease and addressing risk factors before acute medical events occur. By assessing your unique health story, Dr. Jason Bailey develops a personalized plan to maintain your long-term health.

How much does anti-aging cost?

The cost of anti-aging treatment depends on what type of treatment and care you receive. At Wellspring MD, we offer anti-aging medicine for an annual membership fee. You can also choose to receive primary care combined with functional medicine and longevity medicine. Explore our membership page to learn more about our pricing.

Will my HSA/FSA cover longevity medicine?

Wellspring MD’s membership model and patient services agreement contract are designed to maximize your ability to have your medical services covered by your HSAs/ FSAs. We will gladly provide you with the paperwork you need to have our membership fees covered by your HSA or FSA plan. We accept HSA and FSA credit cards.