What causes aging at the molecular level?

Question

how can we treat it repair it? reverse it?

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Answer 1

There is no definitive answer to this question yet, but lots of things are being tested. I work on aging and my own favorite theory of aging is...that it's the second law of thermodynamics. All goes downhill energetically, things fall apart. It takes life lots of energy to keep the complexity going, and organisms have different defense mechanisms to clean up and keep going. If you're a human, you have better defenses than mice that live 3 years or flies that live 3 months. So how could we fix things? Well...maybe we can, if we can learn to keep repair systems going at the rates they worked when we were just born. But again, that's just my favorite theory. Telomeres...well that's probably part of the story. If you have longer telomeres, it'll keep your chromosomal integrity going longer. Good defense for an important system. But, you'll still need to defend your mitochondria, keep your bad proteins down by sending them to the garbage cans, etc.

Answer 2

Telomeres, look it up. Perhaps extending the telomeres would help prevent genetic degredation. The best way to reverse/halt aging is with 100,000 medical robots in your bloodstream.

Answer 3

Mutation and fragmentation of proteins.

Answer 4

degradation of the mitochondria

Answer 5

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