Zwelgje said:
You're body isn't designed to decay after a while, it's designed to last for as long as it takes for you to reproduce in order to keep the species alive. The individual is not important and thus emphasis lies upon keeping the species for as long as possible instead of the individual.
My body is designed to decay. After the age of 30, I will start to lose 10% of my muscle mass every decade. My immunological system will start to weaken after I turn 30 years old, as another example.
With a healthy diet and exercise I can only alleviate or postpone consequences, but the end result is the same, because it is programed to happen that way.
My body it is NOT designed to last for as long as it takes for me to reproduce. If I decide to reproduce when I turn 150 I will not reproduce bacause I will be dead.
Nature gives me a window of opportunity to reproduce, if I miss it, I die (death caused by aging) without reproducing, no matter what.
Aging is a failsafe way for removing living beings out of the path of evolution.
vonork said:
One of the more interesting things is the telomeres on the chromosomes, which every time a cell splits gets shorter; when they get to short the cell dies. Experiments have shown that the cell can be kept alive by modifying (making them longer) them and even have it behave as it was younger.
This would indicate that we could live forever (not die by age) and even become younger if we wanted to. Let’s hope so.
Thank you very much, vorork.
I've heard of the aging process on the Discovery Channel, but I couldn't summarize or do some research about it before I started this thread.
As more and more cells die we get older.
See how the aging process in a programmed disease? The telomeres get shorter for no reason whatsoever, they just do. It is not the wear and tear of everyday life that causes our bodies to grow old, is our faulty genetic makeup. And it needs to be corrected, I am serious about this.
The fact that telomeres are designed to get shorter is undeniable proof that aging is something programed to kill us all.