Outlive: A arte e a ciência de viver mais e melhor

Um dos maiores especialistas mundiais em longevidade, Peter Attia investiga o envelhecimento, o impacto das doenças crônicas e fornece estratégias práticas para melhorar a saúde e prolongar a vida com qualidade. Antes dos 40 anos, Peter Attia, além de médico renomado, já era um maratonista aquático de alto nível, capaz de fazer longas travessias marítimas. Apesar da vida saudável, de repente descobriu que tinha uma doença cardiovascular, para a qual estava absolutamente despreparado. Quando e...

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AndreyKhoviakov21 декабря 2023 г.
This would seem to be a relatively straightforward task: sequence the genomes of a few thousand centenarians and see which individual genes or gene variants stand out as being more prevalent among this population than in the general population. Those would be your candidate genes. But when researchers did this, examining thousands of individuals via genome-wide association studies, they came up almost empty-handed. These individuals appeared to have very little in common with one another genetically. And their longevity may be due to dumb luck after all.
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AndreyKhoviakov21 декабря 2023 г.
This is part of why I place so much importance on taking a detailed family history from my patients: I need to know when your relatives died and why. What are your likely “icebergs,” genetically speaking?
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AndreyKhoviakov21 декабря 2023 г.
Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who once joked, “I’ve only ever had one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.”
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