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“WORLD AGING AWARENESS DAY”
(SEPTEMBER 18TH)
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“INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ‘OLDER PERSONS'”
(OCTOBER 1ST)
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-as of [28 APRIL 2024]–
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*ALTERNATE SPELLINGS* –>
“ageing”
(because the stubborn brits refuse to drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’)
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(‘aging’ is “the process of becoming older”)
(“the passage of time”)
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(the term refers especially to…)
‘human beings’
(and many other ‘animals’)
‘fungi’
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(…whereas (for example)…)
‘bacteria’
‘perennial plants’
*some ‘simple animals’*
(…are potentially ‘immortal’)
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(in the broader sense, ‘aging’ can refer to ‘single cells’ within an ‘organism’ which have ceased dividing’…)
‘cellular senescence’
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(…or to the ‘population of a species…)
‘population aging’
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(in ‘humans’, ‘aging’ represents the ‘accumulation’ of ‘changes’ in a ‘human being’ over time, encompassing (‘physical’ / ‘psychological’ / ‘social’) changes)
(‘reaction time’ (for example) may ‘slow’ with ‘age’…)
(…while ‘knowledge’ of ‘world events’ + ‘wisdom’ may expand)
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(‘aging’ is among the greatest known risk factors for most ‘human diseases’)
( of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about 2/3 die from ‘age-related causes’)
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(the cause(s) of ‘aging’ are ‘uncertain’)
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(current theories are assigned to (either) the…)
‘damage concept’
whereby the accumulation of ‘damage’ (such as ‘DNA oxidation’) may cause ‘biological systems’ to ‘fail’)
*OR*
*the ‘programmed aging concept’*
(whereby ‘internal processes’ (such as ‘DNA methylation’) may cause ‘aging’)
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(‘programmed aging’ should not be confused with ‘programmed cell death’ (aka ‘apoptosis’))
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(the 1934 discovery that ‘calorie restriction’ can extend ‘lifespan’ by 50% in ‘rats’ has motivated research into ‘delaying’ (+ ‘preventing’) ‘aging’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥