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Evolutionary Gerontology and Geriatrics - Why and How We Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Evolutionary Gerontology and Geriatrics - Why and How We Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Advances in Studies of Aging and Health, 2
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This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive
the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging
process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the
result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative
phenomena. The authors illustrate in detail the mechanisms by which
cells and the whole organism age. Actions by which it is possible,
or will be possible within a limited time, to operate for modifying
aging are also debated. The discussion is conducted within the
frame and the concepts of evolutionary medicine, which is also
indispensable for distinguishing between the manifestations of
aging and: (i) diseases that worsen with age, and (ii) acceleration
of normal aging rates, caused by unhealthy lifestyle habits and
other avoidable factors. The book also discusses the impact of
aging on overall mortality and the strange situation that,
according to official statistics, aging does not exist as cause of
death. This book is a turning point between a gerontology and
geriatrics conceived as the study and vain treatment of an
incurable condition and one in which these disciplines examine the
how and why of a physiological phenomenon that can be modified up
to a possible total control. This means transforming the medical
prevention and treatment of physiological aging from the greatest
failure to the greatest success of medicine.
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