#118 Beat Ageing with Dr Andrew Steele
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
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The Harmarks of Aging
The ten hall marks of aging range in scale across our whole body. They include dna, which is the instruction manual at the centre of every one of our cells and can lead to various aspects of the aging process. There are proteins inside your cells that can either change or become damaged or all kinds of various things as you age. Getting on to a slightly bigger scale, the cells themselves can age. Your immune system also becomes less effective over time. And we've really seen people's immune systems just aren't as powerful as younger people's ones are when it comes to fighting off infection. The combination of these causes gives us insight into how we get older.
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