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Not really a specialist or anything, but I surmised that aging creates what you could call "bad chemicals" in your body. > unavoidable byproducts of enzyme fun
by jxcole 10y ago
Not really a specialist or anything, but I surmised that aging creates what you could call "bad chemicals" in your body.
> unavoidable byproducts of enzyme function, for example, or of protein-to-protein interactions, errors in DNA transcription or translation.
One would surmise that aging adds "bad chemicals" to your body at some set rate. If you ALSO eat old things, that are already full of these "bad chemicals", your body will acquire these bad chemicals faster (because of the extra source).
In short, this research shows that there is some byproduct of the aging process that can be transferred from one organism to another and cause aging in the second organism.
- mjevans 10y agoAgeing and death are the accumulation of errors; is my take from this study.
- vectorjohn 10y agoHow is that your take? It seems that would completely contradict it. If it's just accumulation of errors how would that be impacted at all by what you eat? Especially the age of what you eat!
- mjevans 10y agoThink of errors as a toxin or heavy metal. Not all aging will be like that, time is merely correlated.
- M_Grey 10y agoI wonder what the role of prions would be in that? Assuming of course that this isn't just another bullshit, N=20 study.