
Does the body replace itself?
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Is There a Secret to Asheimer's Disease?
There's this idea that if we are regenerating ourselves every seven to ten years, we're like the vast majority of our body cells regenerate. So why do we age and why do we die? It doesn't really make sense in that respect. We've talked about the hay flick limit before, a a replicative sinicent as basically how many times your cells can divide over its lifetime. And i thinka like a fibro blast, which as cells of the connective tissue in mammals, it's about 50 cell divisions. Then it hits that point of sencence, and it starts sending out repair signals to your body that aren't necessary. That causes inflammation. There's one called
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