During the past 3, 4 and 5 October, Seville became the international capital of Antiaging Medicine with the celebration of the XVIII International Congress of the Spanish Society of Anti-Aging and Longevity Medicine (SEMAL). Once again a successful event with the participation of more than 90 speakers and more than 350 attendees of numerous nationalities. The doctors María del Carmen López and Juan Antonio López-Pitalúa participated in the Congress, both as representatives of the Malaga clinic and as members of the Spanish Society of Aesthetic Medicine (SEME).
During the days of the congress, the most innovative topics in anti-aging medicine were discussed, such as, among others: The use of melatonin in the clinical setting and specifically its effect as a powerful cellular protector and antioxidant, new diagnostic methods and therapeutic such as "peptides" (small proteins) that are no more chains of 2 to 50 amino acids and that can have preventive and therapeutic effects of interest, and the acceptance by the majority of congressmen than the use of antioxidant vitamins ( C, A, E), in high doses as proposed in the 90s, can have an effect opposite to that intended, that is, pro-oxidant.
