Outlive. The Science and Art of Longevity

This is the ultimate manual for living better and longer. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifespan at the expense of quality of life. Dr Peter Attia, the world's top longevity expert who is featured on Chris Hemsworth's National Geographic documentary LIMITLE...

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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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