What you're missing about the epigenetic theory of aging is that aging, in the epigenetic theory, is a programmed stage of life like puberty. The body somehow

What you're missing about the epigenetic theory of aging is that aging, in the epigenetic theory, is a programmed stage of life like puberty. The body somehow knows that it's time to develop secondary sexual characteristics and change growth patterns when a human reaches a certain age. The same machinery decides that the slow deterioration of the person should begin. If one could control that machinery, one could turn off that mechanism of aging. The disease progeria is a possible example of the epigenetic clock malfunctioning and running too fast. The source of all this is perhaps the suprachiasmatic nucleus which is important to perceiving the passing of time and emits growth hormone releasing hormone which signals the pituitary to make growth hormone.