昨晩は「最新アンチエイジング医療の真実」と題して、ゴルフ医科学研究所で講演でした。
まずはワインで乾杯。その後に講演、最後はカラオケまで。おかげさまで盛況のうちに終えることができました。遠方からいらしていただいた方や、ドクターも何人も参加し、終了後は良いディスカッションができました。
今回のテーマは、世の中に数多く存在するアンチエイジング治療を、
「きちんとエビデンスのある施術」
「まだ十分ではないけれど、おそらく効果はありそうな施術」
「ほぼマーケティング用語だけが先行していて、現時点ではエビデンスが乏しいもの」
の三つに分けて、それぞれ何を根拠にそう判断するのかを解説するというもの。
広告ではなかなか語られない話もかなり入れましたので、結果的には「美容医療の裏話」のような講演になりました。
これ、WEBで生配信したら、どこかから刺客が来るかもしれません。（笑）
美容医療の世界は、新しい治療が次々に登場します。ただし、「新しい」ということと「効く」ということは、まったく別の話です。
僕がこの分野でこれからやりたいことの一つは、美容アンチエイジング医療を、流行や雰囲気ではなく、できるだけエビデンスを持った科学として整理していくこと。
昨晩は、その入口となるような会になったのではないかと思います。
The Truth About the Latest Anti-Aging Medicine
Last night, I gave a talk at the Institute of Golf Medical Science titled “The Truth About the Latest Anti-Aging Medicine.”
We started the evening by raising a glass of wine, followed by the lecture—and eventually, even karaoke. Thanks to everyone who joined us, the evening came to a very lively and successful close.
We had guests who had traveled quite a distance to attend, as well as several doctors. After the lecture, we had some very stimulating discussions.
The theme of the talk was to take the many anti-aging treatments available today and divide them into three categories:
Treatments with solid scientific evidence behind them.
Treatments for which the evidence is not yet sufficient, but which are likely to be effective.
Treatments where the marketing terminology has gotten ahead of the science, and for which evidence remains limited at this point.
I explained what kind of evidence—or lack thereof—leads me to place a treatment in each category.
I also included quite a bit of material that is rarely discussed in advertisements, so in the end, the talk became something of an “inside look at the world of aesthetic medicine.”
If I ever livestreamed the whole thing on the web, someone might even send an assassin after me.
The world of aesthetic medicine is constantly producing new treatments.
But “new” and “effective” are two completely different things.
One of the things I would like to accomplish in this field going forward is to organize aesthetic anti-aging medicine not around trends or hype, but as a scientific discipline grounded, as much as possible, in solid evidence.
I think last night’s gathering may have been a good place to begin.
