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| Topic | American plans to LIVE until he's 180 YEARS OLD!! Look at what he's Doing!!! |
| Sahuagin 02/03/21 6:16:07 AM #12: | the article doesn't mention it but what you theoretically need is to reverse or delay telomere shortening. basically, (to over-simplify) cancer is caused by the fact that we have regeneration (cancer is out-of-control regeneration), so to prevent that we have natural "time to live" counters (telomeres) that limit the number of times cells can split so that regeneration can't happen forever. this helps protect us from cancer but curses us with biological aging. the problems are: - if you do actually reverse or get rid of the "time to live" mechanism (and there are ways of doing so), you tend to end up significantly more vulnerable to cancer (in fact, that is often *why* people get cancer: because something like that happened in some of your tissues, and now those tissues are regenerating without bound). (though there are animals that are resistant to cancer despite also avoiding telomere shortening, so it's not strictly impossible to achieve.) - as I often point out, even if you get rid of biological aging, you can't get rid of temporal aging. a lot of getting old is just wear and tear and poor maintenance of your body. making as healthy choices as you can will definitely help but that doesn't mean you're going to live 50% longer than anyone ever has before. I don't think people that live to 100+ are even necessarily those particular people that lived the healthiest lives. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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