Knowledgeable people may consider my stem cell theory of aging to be a statement of the obvious, as do I. But a greater number believe that aging is more complicated than just telomere erosion in stem cells and favor other theories.
…research suggests that healthy lifestyle choices may be acting via one final common pathway: telomerase activation.
Larry was a 65 year-old healthy man who underwent biometric testing before and after taking the supplement TA-65. He changed nothing else in his lifestyle and yet his lung functioning went from a very respectable 3.8 liters to 4.6 liters after only 15 months.
BRCA1 is no more a “cancer gene” than policemen are crime-inducers. They don’t cause cancer but if they aren’t policing the DNA, cancers will develop.
If you were copying taped music but could only press the record button on a leader-less duplicate after pressing the play button on the original, you would have a perfect model for the telomere theory of aging.
The Telomere theory of aging fits well with 10 of 11 of these Progerias (premature aging syndromes)
