The Master Regulators of Aging
Different parts of our bodies respond differently to aging, but there seems to be a genetic footprint made up out of a few key regulators
Time is not on our side
When we were children, most of us couldn’t wait to grow up. What fools we were. Once adulthood has crept around the corner, things started to go downhill. Slower for some, but still…
Aging, after all, is marked by the ‘gradual deterioration of functional characteristics’. The physical prowess of our teens and twenties is but a fading dream as time flies by.
For most people, it stills feels unconventional to call aging a disease. The case, however, has been made a few times by now. Whether you agree or not, it is uncontroversial to say that, in the vast majority of people, advanced age is a period marked by various health problems (unless we visit the blue zones).
That point is that aging is a systemic process that leaves no bodily function unaffected. It is, to use a few extra syllables, a multi-factorial problem. In fact, in a previous post, we looked at how this points towards implementing machine learning in aging research, and a later study indeed used machine learning to develop lifespan ‘clocks’.
