How fast we Age
Medical science is advancing at an amazing pace. Think of genetic engineering and its impact on drug discovery; stem cell technology/genetic engineering on organ transplant and management of diseases like HIV/AIDS. All sorts of imaging techniques make for easy disease diagnosis and telemedicine makes it possible for experts to diagnose diseases and interprete results thousands of miles away.
Of particular interest is the way medical scientists and practitioners now think of how we age from diseases.
Aging is believed to be harvested from childhood or early adult life from infectious diseases and environmental pollutants that we had come in contact with or the lifestyle we had lived. We age faster than we are genetically predestined to. Most chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's disease, heart failure, arthritis, Parkinson's disease, emphysema are results of these early life harvests. Most of these diseases currently are managed but not cured because although microbes may have been controlled, lifestyle improved upon at adulthood or environment cleaned, the damage is not only no longer reversible but is continuous.
Inflammation usually accompanies aging and this is a signal of things having gone wayward. The damage is usually continuous and many of these diseases have been linked with immunological reactions to continuous tissue damage. Amyloid is a fibrillar hyaline that our body produces and is implicated in most chronic inlammations that we harbor at all ages. It causes physical damage to our body, being insoluble and being indigestible, it defies the body's phagocytic machinery. We practically carry it from young age through old age in chronic inflammations and it is the cause of many deaths from heart failure, liver failure, kidney failure, stroke and dementia. It causes plaques, bumps and pricks in practically all of our body tissues, incapacitating our vital organs. We then age externally, internally, mentally and painfully so.
Dr Oliver V. Birnso
Of particular interest is the way medical scientists and practitioners now think of how we age from diseases.
Aging is believed to be harvested from childhood or early adult life from infectious diseases and environmental pollutants that we had come in contact with or the lifestyle we had lived. We age faster than we are genetically predestined to. Most chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's disease, heart failure, arthritis, Parkinson's disease, emphysema are results of these early life harvests. Most of these diseases currently are managed but not cured because although microbes may have been controlled, lifestyle improved upon at adulthood or environment cleaned, the damage is not only no longer reversible but is continuous.
Inflammation usually accompanies aging and this is a signal of things having gone wayward. The damage is usually continuous and many of these diseases have been linked with immunological reactions to continuous tissue damage. Amyloid is a fibrillar hyaline that our body produces and is implicated in most chronic inlammations that we harbor at all ages. It causes physical damage to our body, being insoluble and being indigestible, it defies the body's phagocytic machinery. We practically carry it from young age through old age in chronic inflammations and it is the cause of many deaths from heart failure, liver failure, kidney failure, stroke and dementia. It causes plaques, bumps and pricks in practically all of our body tissues, incapacitating our vital organs. We then age externally, internally, mentally and painfully so.
Dr Oliver V. Birnso
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