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The Way We Age

...There is, he said, "no single, common cellular mechanism to the aging process." Our bodies accumulate lipofuscin and oxygen free-radical damage and random DNA mutations and numerous other microcellular problems.

The process is gradual and unrelenting.

"We just fall apart," he said.To read comments on this story, and to post your own thoughts, click here.Key words: aging, age, elderly, mechanisms of aging, wearing-out, damage accumulation, New Yorker, Atul Gawande, Leonid Gavrilov, redundancy, reliability theory, systems failure, Felix SilverstoneHome:Longevity Science: The Way We Agehttp://longevity-science.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mprize Fund $4,437,733 SENS Fund $4,097,970 Contribute High Quality Supplements & Vitamins Email Updates!

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