Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging

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By the year 2050 one in five of the world's population will be 65 or older, a fact which presages profound medical, biological, philosophical, and political changes in the coming century. In Time of Our Lives, Tom Kirkwood draws on more than twenty years of research to make sense of the evolution of aging, to explain how aging occurs, and to answer fundamental questions like why women live longer than men. He shows that we age because our genes, evolving at a time when life was "nasty, brutish, and short," placed little priority on the long-term maintenance of our bodies. With such knowledge, along with new insights from genome research, we can devise ways to target the root causes of aging and of age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and osteoporosis. He even considers the possibility that human beings will someday have greatly extended life spans or even be free from senescence altogether. Beautifully written by one of the world's pioneering researchers into the science of aging, Time of Our Lives is a clear, original and, above all, inspiring investigation of a process all of us experience but few of us understand.
 

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1 The funeral season
1
2 Attitudes to ageing
12
3 Whats in a name?
22
4 Longevity records
39
5 The unnecessary nature of ageing
52
6 Why ageing occurs
63
7 Cells in crisis
81
8 Molecules and mistakes
100
12 Eat less live longer
174
13 Why do women live longer than men?
184
14 The Genie of the Genome
196
15 In search of WonkaVite
212
16 Making more time
230
Epilogue
243
Notes
257
Bibliography
261

9 Organs and orchestras
118
10 The cancer connection
147
11 Menopause and the big bang
161

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Tom Kirkwood is Professor of Biological Gerontology at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester-Newcastle Joint Center on Aging. He is a member of several international editorial boards and scientific committees, an adviser to the World Health Organization, and winner of the Heinz Karger Prize on cellular aging. Mr. Kirkwood lives in Manchester, England.

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