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  • But we totally do!

    There are a handful of mechanisms that break down over time, and they are both well documented and no new one has been found in somewhat the last 45 years!

    Some people like to split some of them up in two, but the base SIX reasons we age are as follows:

    • Cell loss/tissue atrophy
    • Cancerous cells
    • Mitochondrial mutations
    • Intracellular aggregates
    • Extracellular aggregates
    • Senescent cells

    See for example the book Ending Aging by the worlds most renowned bio gerontologist or the SENS foundation.

    Fun fact, active research into how to fix them is ongoing research and seems to advance quite well towards simple and cheap treatments. Not fast enough of course but we might be on the cusp of negligible senescence as they call it…