Is life without old age possible?
Lecturer's comment
Why do people age? Which body systems suffer first and are the main "risk zones"? What does modern science offer to correct their condition? What facts are the most popular theories of aging based on? How to help our body: antioxidants, healthy nutrition and nootropics, or radical gene doping, tissue engineering and electronic implants? This and much more will be discussed at the lecture offered to your attention by Vyacheslav Dubynin, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Human and Animal Physiology of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University
The first global breakthrough was the appearance of antiseptics, vaccines, antibiotics in the XIX-XX centuries, and many terrible infections (plague, cholera, smallpox, typhus, anthrax) retreated, and people began to live on average not 30-35 years, but all 50-60.
Next, scientists took up cardiovascular diseases. As a result, we have drugs that control blood pressure and cholesterol levels, dissolve blood clots, relieve arrhythmia. At the surgical level, pacemakers, stents, and artificial valves are implanted. The main thing is to do everything on time, not to start the disease, not to accelerate its development by continuous stress, improper nutrition, inactivity. This is another plus 10-15 years of life.
The third layer of problems is oncology. It is often associated with a weakening of the immune system and its inability to destroy the incipient tumor in time. Here, the earliest possible diagnosis, the detection of high levels of cancer markers in the blood, and then the detection and destruction of the tumor before the appearance of metastases turned out to be especially important. Yes, all this is very difficult, and cancer is not one disease, but thousands, but the successes achieved are still plus 5-10 years on the scale of countries and continents.
Now, in the 21st century, neurodegeneration has come to the fore – Alzheimer's disease, Parkinsonism, various atrophy. Their development is often determined by the accumulation of "defective" proteins in the cytoplasm of nerve cells that disrupt the functions of individual neurons and the brain as a whole. We cannot extract these proteins yet, nor can we replace dying cells, and it is neurodegeneration that is currently the main obstacle blocking humanity from stepping over the 100–year barrier.
Thus, each of us is unlikely to have more than 90-100 years of life. And here it is especially important – how will we live them? Aging processes develop fatally in many ways: due to the "fatigue" of organs and tissues, the accumulation of errors in regulatory systems (nervous, endocrine, immune); there are genetically determined aging programs launched at deep molecular levels. It is important to distinguish – in which cases we are able to independently realize the problem and work on its solution, and in which cases we will need the help of specialists, including in its most modern expression. It is not surprising that new ideas and developments in such areas as tissue engineering, genetic engineering, and the creation of neuroimplants are now in great demand in science and business. All these technologies will not even prolong a person's life as much as they will make it more active and full after 70-80 years. However, there are also many problems and "pitfalls" here, which our society is only getting closer to understanding.
We will talk about this at a lecture at Huyndai Motorstudio (Novy Arbat str., 21, p. 1) the first of December. The beginning is at 19.30. The cost of tickets in the pre–sale is 350 rubles. Immediately before the start of the lecture – 400 rubles.
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24.11.2015