In Pursuit of Forever
Although it is certainly an important operative factor, the commonly-interpreted
explanation of aging and death, a sort of simple degeneration of the body's mechanical and
chemical systems through time and usage, does not apply very well to the truth. The
human body replaces every constituent atom naturally every seven years. Unlike machines,
our bodies are in a constant state of self-repair and regulation, and it is the breakdown of
the systems that govern these activities which concern gerentologists. The presently
debated basic theories of aging center around explanations of this point. Although these
theories are many, and some quite technical, they can be lumped, in layman's terms into
three basic categories. Firstly, simple ‘wear and usage' which encompasses such ideas as
catastrophic accumulation of DNA transcription errors and radiation damage, cell/organ
waste accumulation, and genetic cross linkage. Also, most believe a sort of genetic......
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