Re: Caloric restriction slows brain aging

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From: tateg
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00

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On 1 Jul 2000 14:59:13 GMT, ag24@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Aubrey de Grey)
wrote:

>I found it necessary to spell out rather forcefully that what we get by
>microarray and related experiments is a picture of the **coordinated**
>gene-expression changes which occur during aging, and that such changes
>are almost entirely descriptive of what cells are doing to *compensate*
>for the primary, accumulated losses of function that define the process
>of aging and its rate.

Is any thought being given to the possibility that these changes
aren't compensation at all but nature's built in obsolescence so that
there will be room for future, supposedly superior, generations? Or am
I way off the mark here?

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