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Mystery Of Anti-Aging Is Hidden In Nature
June 24, 2008 |
All the way we go throughout our life dreaming the best mode to appear more attractive than others. The time at which we just make a move to start the real wisdom our body start loosing the youth skin i.e. it starts declining. The overall experience that one gains through out the life is wasted, as the mind becomes debile and they appear dull, old, gray haired, people look on to them with compassionate.
In this century, scientists are confident that they have the key to this problem. As the aging problem is locked within the cells, they can manipulate the processing of the cell and reverse the overall process. This has helped in inventing new products supplements and has given boost to the pharmaceutical industries. One can expect an active and young life after crossing thirties or even fifties and lifelong.
Nowadays the life style has drastically changed, the busy schedule of the people make them more prone to the fast living habits. In the eve of achieving the target in short span of life people are going for shortcuts. They are adopting artificial means of living. Though the quality of living has increased to a good extend still the ultimate requirement of the body and mind has been cut short to a pinpoint. The work load has increased, food nutrition has decreased, sun rays include harmful rays like UV rays that ultimately results in declination of the skin.
Scientist has promised to delay the aging of the skin and drugs related to this are soon being experimented on humans. The history revealed that there seem to be an animal very primitive hydra that never gets old and remain young and active and can replicate to form the similar copies of the cells. It is quite certain that there is no comparison between the animal and humans. Though human body structure is quite complex and is multi-cellular organism, if we repeatedly produce several copies of cells; it is quite possible to search the enigmas of aging.
Our earth itself is a great mystery and the animals on it have wide variation. For the silly example we consider the life time of mice may be just two years whereas Galapagos tortoises may live up to 200 years. Isn’t it a wide variation in lifespan of the animals?
The scientists are of the view that this anti-aging problem has an answer hidden in billions of years ago when there was just an onset of the life. The earth exists totally different than now it appears as the earth was very hot and was surrounded with the poisonous gases like carbon-dioxide, sulfur etc. Due to which the sky appeared red and it was just unfavorable condition for life. As the time passed reactions took place and oxygen appeared on earth. But oxygen has a very oxidative effect and corrosive effect too, it also results into combustion. Hence with the arrival of oxygen the sky appeared blue. Due to all these hazardous properties, it killed the life of the earth. This period was believed to be the great resolution period which provides a clue for aging.
With the proceeding studies, it revealed that one microbe called mitochondrion has evolved considerably utilizing oxygen to gain energy. These mitochondria thus start multiplying and generating new cells and giving rise to the onset of life on the earth. Hence these cells absorb the energy and came up to be a powerful source of life. It is said to be the store house of cells, as all the energy is trapped in the cells and is released when required. Mitochondria are the key source of living. Each breathe is the combination of the overall energy provided by the mitochondrion. Each breathe of ours proceeds to our aging and hence it is interrelated with the aging, therefore the key to it is in this mystery ever if we try to understand.
“Oxygen” that is believed to be the key source of living and without it life seems impossible. Isn’t it shocking if you are told that oxygen declines us? It is certain, but it is the fact. Oxygen is demolishing us steadily. Oxygen has the property of corrosion and combustion, it has oxidative nature. For example when oxidation takes place it corrodes the element steadily in the same way our cells are declining progressively. The mitochondrion causes combustion of carbon when it associates with the oxygen molecule and energy is released considerably, but some times very highly labeled oxygen moieties are formed as a by-product. These by-products are called free radicals and seem to cause hazardous effect as it remains attached to the cells. These free radicals damage our cells ultimately our genes get deteriorated.
The free radicals are the ultimate causative agent that may lead to aging. The most live symptoms of the aging are the main organ that is in excessive contact of oxygen like heart is the most susceptible organ as it remains touch with blood containing oxygen. Hence the oxygen circulating the different organ of the body steadily makes it weak and demolishes them.
These free radicals deteriorate the cells and ultimately lead to the aging. The cells start becoming weak and dull thus damaging the skin; joints, bones, immune system, and every other type of tissue cell in our bodies are being attacked by free radicals every moment of our lives.
Thus, forensic scientist are studying in finding the truth of prolong living in which is the clue for aging.