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Have you ever asked yourself why we get old and grey? What goes wrong in our bodies to make it hard to live more than 100 years? Scientists have studied these questions for decades, but do you really want to struggle through hundreds of pages of complicated scientific articles? This Science Comic Book explains the most important ideas about the aging process in an entertaining, but nevertheless scientifically accurate fashion. For those who want to follow up in more detail, there are references to the relevant literature in the text.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
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Dr. Axel KowaldIllustrated by Reinhard Trummer
Gerontology in Cartoons
Entertaining Introduction into the
Biology of Aging.
2016
Copyright © 2016 Axel Kowald
TUBUK.digital www.tubuk-digital.de
TUBUK.digital is an imprint of Open Publishing Rights GmbH
ISBN 978-3-95595-066-8
All rights reserved, including those of translation into other languages. No part of this book may be reproduced in electronic or printed form without written permission from the publisher.
Print and Binding: BoD GmbH, Norderstedt Germany
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Contents
Introduction
What is aging ?
How can we measure aging ?
Mechanisms
Crash course molecular biology
Theory bushwacking
Shrinking chromosomes
Powerhouses of the cell
Ways to life extension
Less is more
The French paradox
Salvation from the Easter Island ?
What if...
Literature
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Hello !
Have you ever asked yourself why we get old and grey? What goes wrong in our bodies to make it hard to live more than 100 years? Scientists have studied these questions for decades, but do you really want to struggle through hundreds of pages of complicated scientific articles?
This Science-Comic Book explains the most important ideas about the aging process in an entertaining, but nevertheless scientifically accurate fashion. For those who want to follow up in more detail, there are refer-ences to the relevant literature in the text.
Please send feedback & comments [email protected]. Information regarding the book is also available at www.trumix.de
Enjoy !
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Foreword
Humans have long struggled to come to terms with the inevitability of our mortality. As Benjamin Franklin famously remarked “The only things certain in life are death and taxes”. And so we have taken for granted that each of us must age and die, but then tried hard not to think about it! Even doctors and scientists have for far too long tended to dismiss the ageing process as something that “just happens” and is “too complicated to understand”.
Fortunately, times are changing. Research on ageing is now one of the hottest subjects in science, and we see all around us that people are living longer, and longer, and longer. The ongoing increase in human life expectancy proves beyond doubt that ageing is, at least to some extent, malleable. Most of us are reaching old age in better shape than did our parents and grandparents.
So it is important to understand ageing and what causes it. Only then can we properly understand what the future might hold, both for you and me as individuals and also for our societies.
Not all of us are trained in science but the ideas can be understood by all if they are well explained. This is what Axel Kowald offers us in the delightful book with its witty illustrations by Reinhard Trummer. It is science told by an expert, but told in a different way. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have done.
Professor Tom Kirkwood
Dean for Ageing
Newcastle University
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Chapter 1
Introduction
What actually is aging?
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Bridges age ...
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And even jokes age ...
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Grey hair
Bent posture
Age spots
Reduced
reaction speed
Reduced
eye-sight
Wrinkles
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That’s right!
But it doesn’t
mean we can’t do
anything about it.
That means aging is a natural process, because all humans are affected ?
