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Aging isn't inherited? Older women's eggs make more children who are more likely to be retarded. Older men's make more children who more likely are taller, more
by graphe 4y ago
Aging isn't inherited? Older women's eggs make more children who are more likely to be retarded. Older men's make more children who more likely are taller, more prone to obesity, and schizophrenic.
You don't start at zero. If your parents aren't healthy you likely won't be either. If you parents have undamaged eggs or sperm youll inherit more of your grandfathers traits from the x chromosome. If not you'll get my father's mutations.
- tux3 4y agoThat's true to an extent, yes. Hoewer if aging were inherited in a meaningful sense, the species would not have survived very long. My point behind this is that DNA mutations are normally inherited, and indeed we also see that older parents' children have higher risk. But that aging still almost entirely resets suggest that most of the effects of aging are not just plain DNA mutations. Hence the idea that it must be mainly something else that is not inherited, like epigenetics, senescent cells, etc
- graphe 4y agoWe know it's not just DNA mutations, but you're conflating that with curing aging. More intelligent octopuses live for shorter periods of time, as do cuttlefish. The gene makes them intelligent as well as die sooner. Their species doesn't need long lifespans and it also isn't aging unnaturally long. Humans can age longer because they delay death at the cost of their genetic coding. Unless you're stopping this sooner rather than later it will be for nothing. Unfortunately the person I considered an expert on this is now blacklisted. He was more interested in reversing aging rather than delaying these effects, by removing all the mitochondria. Have you looked into the mitomouse?
- tux3 4y agoI'll google that, thank you.