GEROVITAL: AN ELIXIR FOR YOUTH WITHOUT AGEING
Professor Aslan’s dedication to the discovery of a scientific youth elixir has also led to the creation of the world’s first Geriatric Institute (1952).
Professor Aslan and her team of enthusiastic researchers, including pharmacist Elena Polovrageanu, conducted numerous clinical and experimental studies for 10 years, between 1946 and 1956. Their fantastic work produced Gerovital.
In 1952, Vitamin H3, also named
Gerovital was ready to be launched in the world so that everybody
can take advantage of its beneficial effects. It
was the first Romanian original biotrophic product and also the first medicine designed to reduce aging processes at molecular level and
consequently reduce third-age chronic and degenerative diseases.
It was acknowledged
as a medical breakthrough in 1957, at the 4th
International Gerontology Congress in Verona, Italy.
Scientists
and researchers from the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Austria, Japan and Romania
have subsequently studied and analyzed Ana Aslan’s treatment and
confirmed its anti-aging properties.
In 1957, Professor Ana Aslan
homologated Gerovital H3 and put it into
mass production in the form of ampules, and five years later in the form of
tablets.
Launched in 1967,
the Gerovital cosmetics were
initially part of a program designed to tackle skin problems that women start
facing in their 40s.
In 1980, Ana Aslan invented, together with Pharmacist Elena
Polovrageanu, a new geriatric product - Aslavital
(indicated in the prophylactic and curative forms of predominantly cerebral
and cardiovascular aging). It was patented very quickly and introduced in
industrial production.
Gerovital products soon became famous in over 30 countries. Some
of the most important personalities of the period started using Gerovital: JFK, Gandhi, Sir Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, Pablo Picasso, Tito, Indira Ghandi,
Aristotel Onasis, Salvador Dali, Charles Chaplin, Kirk
Douglas Marlene Dietrich, Claudia Cardinale, Jacqueline Kennedy and
Khrushchev. Some of them even came to Ana
Aslan’s geriatric Institute in Bucharest to take full advantage of the Gerovital effects.
Doctor Aslan, a discreet
researcher focused on her work and not hungry for fame, has always respected
her patients' confidentiality and did not claim credit for rejuvenating certain
international celebrities.
The enormous work of Professor Dr. Ana Aslan as a physician
and as a researcher, as the brain behind a team of researchers, has been
unanimously appreciated on international level.
Ana Aslan was
a member in prestigious global organizations and received many international
distinctions and awards for her research activity. Here are only a few of the
international recognitions of her prodigious activity to serve human health:
- “Cross of Merit” – First Class of the Order of Merit, Germany, 1971
- “Cavalier de la Nouvelle Europe” Prize Oscar, Italy, 1973
- “Les Palmes Academiques”, France, 1974
- “Honorary Foreign Citizen and Honorary Professor of Sciences”, Philippines, 1978
- “Member Honoris Causa” Diploma of the Bohemo-Slovakian Society of Gerontology, 1981
- “Leon Bernard” Prize, important distinction granted by the World Health Organization for contributing to the development of gerontology and geriatrics, 1982
Born at 1 January 1897, Ana
Aslan died in 19th of May 1988 at the age of 91.
- National Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics "Ana Aslan"
- Ana Aslan Foundation
- Farmec SA
