Lifespan : Why We Age – and Why We Don-t Have To: Why We Age – and Why We Don-t Have To (Paperback) – by David A. Sinclair

Publisher : Thorsons (30 September 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 0008380325
Item Weight : 390 g
Dimensions : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm

ities on genetics and ageing, argues just that. He has dedicated his life?s work to chasing more than a longer lifespan ? he wants to enable people to live longer, healthier, and disease-free well into our hundreds. In this book, he reveals a bold new theory of ageing, one that pinpoints a root cause of ageing that lies in an ancient genetic survival circuit. This genetic trick ? a circuit designed to halt reproduction in order to repair damage to the genome ?has enabled earth?s early microcosms to survive and evolve into more advanced organisms. But this same survival circuit is the reason we age: as genetic damage accumulates over our lifespans from UV rays, environmental toxins, and unhealthy diets, our genome is overwhelmed, causing gray hair, wrinkles, achy joints, heart issues, dementia, and, ultimately, death. But genes aren?t our destiny; we have more control over them than we?ve been taught to believe. We can?t change our DNA, but we can harness the power of the epigenome to realise