MargaritaSays: Anti-Aging with Aubrey De Grey – Video

Posted: November 28, 2012 at 12:43 pm




MargaritaSays: Anti-Aging with Aubrey De Grey
Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (/d #601; #712; #609;re #618;/; born 20 April 1963) is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology, and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). He is perhaps best known for his view[neutrality is disputed] that human beings could, in theory, live to lifespans far in excess of that which any authenticated cases have lived to today. De Grey #39;s research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can thwart the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" (SENS), a tissue-repair strategy intended to rejuvenate the human body and allow negligible senescence. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage.[2] The "pro-aging trance" is a term coined by Grey to describe "the impulsion to leap to embarrassingly unjustified conclusions in order to put the horror of aging out of one #39;s mind".[17] According to de Grey, the pro-aging trance or "pro-aging edifice"[18] is a psychological strategy which people use in order to cope with aging, and which is rooted in the belief that aging is immutable and unavoidable. De Grey refers, in this regard, to the general public #39;s ...From:MargaritaShamrakovViews:2 1ratingsTime:10:13More inPeople Blogs

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