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Longevity Wellness Center's Mission
The mission of Longevity Wellness Centers is to demystify the processes of aging and provide the tools and knowledge people need to live the life they have imagined.
Longevity Wellness Center's Values
Whole-Person Care
- We will attend not only to the physical but also to the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of each individual
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| Relationship and Patient–Centered Care |
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We recognize the fundamental importance of the relationship between the patient and the health care provider |
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We are deeply respectful of the wishes and experience of the individual patient, and value the patient as an active partner in their own care |
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| Self–Care |
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We believe that health care providers should be teachers, facilitating patients in caring for themselves in order to prevent, delay, or minimize age-related decline and disease |
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We recognize that providers should themselves embody a philosophy of self-care and, in being truly attentive of their own health and well-being, better serve the needs of others |
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| Evidence–Based |
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We support informed decision-making based on the best available evidence on the safety and effectiveness of all treatment and lifestyle options |
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Longevity Wellness Center's Philosophy
The declines with age are far more related to a lifetime of unenlightened choices than they are to the ticking of a clock.
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Unhealthy choices may lead to functional biologic age equivalent to someone 15-20 years older |
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| Normal aging and pathologic aging are different |
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Pathologic aging, which is the aging process brought on by the presence of disease’ is not considered "normal" aging. |
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| Effective intervention suggests that every process of aging be addressed |
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We can positively impact the pathways of aging, resulting in slower and more uniform decline in our functional ability, balance, and reserve capacity |
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Longer life spans are the result of healthy choices and interventions |
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| Experience is the only thing that changes us |
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When we embrace the richness of our past, we can begin to uncover the treasures of our future |
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The only true experiences occur when we live in the present moment |
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| Preventive-aging medicine seeks to |
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Embrace and celebrate natural aging, and every stage of life |
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Optimize whole-person well-being, health, and vitality - physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually |
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Prevent, diminish, or delay pathological causes of premature aging and mortality |
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| We are the Artist of the rest of our life |
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Our life as a living work of art. |
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We do not exist to find ourselves. We exist to create ourselves |
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| Optimum whole-person aging is more than the imitation of youth |
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There are valued human attributes that increase with age |
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With the passage of time comes the accumulation of meaningful experiences, and wisdom, which can be shared with others |
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| With optimum health and greater longevity we have more opportunities to seek |
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Greater happiness |
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A greater, more holistic self-awareness and acceptance |
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Spiritual enlightenment |
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A Manifesto
�The superior physician helps before the early budding of the disease. The inferior physician begins to help when the disease has already developed.� Yellow Emperor�s Classic of Internal Medicine, Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen, 2697-2597 BC. In this most modern of days and availed of the greatest medical advancements in history we have chosen to live in the Dark Ages. At a time when we have decoded the complex sequences in our genes, we have yet to decipher the simple balances within ourselves. We have treated aging as a bemoaning not a becoming. We have trampled our own time-tested truths in a frantic and flawed race against the clock. And we have paid a terrible price - trading wisdom for wealth, aspiration for appearance, science for superstition, and mastery for the momentary. When will we awaken and chase the darkness of doubt with the light of insight? We reject the current dismal and disenchanted view of aging. The darkness of diminished functioning is far more related to a lifetime of unenlightened choices than it is to the ticking of an unrelenting clock. And we are not content to rely only on downstream approaches that expensively examine symptoms and appearances, while leaving the upstream causes undiscovered and unaddressed. At Longevity Wellness Centers we declare now as a new age of enlightenment and our Work as a vibrant source of illumination. We will lift the shroud of fear and demystify the process of aging. We will provide the tools and knowledge people need to live the life they�ve imagined. We will arouse a radiant spirit of vitality in every person we touch. And we will stir an insatiable curiosity about what each of us might become. Our work will be a beacon of hope, a shining signal that the best of days are still ahead no matter where we find ourselves today. Our work will be a balance between science and art, evidence and belief, logic and imagination,outward beauty and inward meaning. |
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| The mission of Longevity Wellness Centers is to demystify the processes of aging and provide the tools and knowledge people need to live the life they have imagined. |
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| Longevity Wellness Center's Values |
| Whole-Person Care |
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| Longevity Wellness Centers |
| Dr. Patricia Petitt, D.O., M.P.H., FAARFM, ABAARM |
11921 Freedom Drive, Suite 550, Tower Two |
| Reston, VA 20190 |
| [email protected] |
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| Phone: 703-272-8501 |
| Fax: 703-272-8502 |
| eFax: 703-373-9551 |
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| Clinic Hours |
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Monday - Friday 10 AM - 5 PM
Saturday 10 AM - 3 PM
Closed Sunday |
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