Although I understand the “how” of refracted sunlight creating rainbows and the “how” of telomere erosion in stem cells causing aging, I don’t yet grasp the whys.
If we assume 3 billion base pairs, 1/100,000 transcription errors, but a high rate of intra-transcriptional proofreading, we get that figure down to about 0.3 mutations (wrong letter substitution) per cell division.
If you had lower telomerase activity, then you had a higher risk of Type2 Diabetes and all the changes associated with getting fat.
You had one ‘perfect’ copy of DNA in your chromosomes when you were a single cell fertilized ege. Since then, each copy has made successive generations progressively worse
perhaps cells that are activated are lighter, more dynamic, and actually experience an iota of slower time passage
We chat with BioViva CEO Liz Parrish, who has heroically injected herself with a live virus meant to transfect her with two genes- telomerase and follistatin.
