Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.
The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.
Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.