The Telomere Effect [antikvár]

Authors' Note: Why We Wrote This BookWith a life span of 122 years, Jeanne Calment was one of the longest-living women on record. When she was eighty-five, she took up the sport of fencing. She was still riding a bike into her triple digits.' When she turned one hundred, she walked around her hometown of Aries, France, thanking the people who'd wished her a happy birthday.^ Calment's relish for life captures what we all want: a life that is healthy right up to the very end. Aging and death are immutable facts of life, but how we live until our last day is not. This is up to us. We can live better and more fully now and in our later years.The relatively new field of telomere science has profound implications that can help us reach this goal. Its application can help reduce chronic disease and improve wellbeing, all the way down to our cells and all the way through our lives. We've written this book to put this important information into your hands.Here you will find a new way of thinking about human aging. One current, predominant, scientific view of human aging is that the DNA of our cells becomes progressively damaged, causing cells to become irreversibly aged and dysfunctional. But which DNA is damaged? Why did it become damaged? The full answers aren't known yet, but the clues are now pointing strongly toward telomeres as a major culprit. Diseases can seem distinct because they involve very different organs and parts of the body. But new scientific and