Help with research paper! Is aging a disease?

[Silent Method]

To put it simply aging is caused by oxidization (sp?). So as long as we are breathing air we will age.

Please take a cell biology course. Oxidation is just one sliver of the aging process.

 

[Baby Gorilla]

Hard call....

I don't think something like the aging process is a disease, but it might be seen as one.

Fact #1....we can genetically live to a potential of 120 years.

Fact #2....we generally don't make it.

Why? Some is lifestyle and diet. Live healthy, and you'll likely gain some years. Some is environment. Dirty air and water is just slow poisoning.

The side of aging that can be retarded or eliminated by lifestyle changes, proper biochem (vitamins/minerals/hormones) balance, and such should be treated like a disease. However, we all age...that we must accept with dignity. How "healthy" you'll be in the end is a crapshoot of genetics and how your life goes.

 

[Optimus B]

at the end of your chromosomes are things called telomeres. every time your dna is replicated, a little piece of the telomere isn't replicated and it's this that causes aging. normal cells can replicate approximately 55 times (the hayflick limit) before they cease to replicate and hence you die. tumor cells have telomerases that can ensure that their telomeres remain and so they are essentially immortal. if you could ensure that your telomeres remain intact via a telomerase or a better dna polymerase, then you could prevent aging.

 

[Silent Method]

if you could ensure that your telomeres remain intact via a telomerase or a better dna polymerase, then you could prevent aging.

Or create something worse than cancer.

Ahh, you've had a bit of cell bio...

 

[Bull69]

Eight years ago I did a senior seminar on anti-aging treatments. Aging has never been classified as a disease. Dr. Stuart Walt ran an anti-aging clinic in the late sixties in Southern California. He tried unsuccessfully to get aging declared a disease by AMA but was unsuccesful. I believe it is coined as a disease by the clinics today as a marketing strategy.

 

[Silent Method]

Eight years ago I did a senior seminar on anti-aging treatments. Aging has never been classified as a disease. Dr. Stuart Walt ran an anti-aging clinic in the late sixties in Southern California. He tried unsuccessfully to get aging declared a disease by AMA but was unsuccesful. I believe it is coined as a disease by the clinics today as a marketing strategy.

Good info for this guy. Of course that was 8 years ago...

 

[scott825]

I thought there was some type of rare aging disease,but maybe not.

Aging is mostly Genetic then comes lifestyle,diet,exercise,happieness & sleep.I am 31 & look much younger.I take tons of vitamins(antioxidants) work out regularly,drink lots of water,do a cycle 1-2 times a year & try not to get stressed about little things at my full time job,Cause I am surrounded by alot of negative & miserable people.I even work at a Bar one night a week cause it is not only fun but I believe laughter & being around much youger people keeps me younger minded & happier.It has kinda became an obsession with me but I guess its atleast a good one.

My only downfalls are that I go out on Saturday nights drinking with my friends,sometimes work in a not so healthy(toxic) enviroment at my regular job & sometimes do not sleep enough.But im going to the doctor about the sleep issue.

 

[Optimus B]

Or create something worse than cancer.

Ahh, you've had a bit of cell bio...

just a tad

 

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Aging is caused by the hayflick limit.

Of course the Hayflick Limit is the catalyst for Driscoll's Firmament.

 

[scott825]

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