subject: Anti aging genes discovered [print this page] The Fountain of Youth, an anti aging nectar that prolongs time spend on earth; a nectar that can cure every health problem; a nectar, unfortunately, that can be found only in fictional stories. In spite of its fictional existence, the fountain of youth is a kick-start motif for scientist search for longer life span. Youth is the greatest period in everyman's life and forever young a common wish.
Scientist claim that the root of longer life span lies in human's genes. It is not something that you can gain reaching certain age and it is not something that you can make by consuming special drugs. Centurion is created from birth. Through out the years scientists have made many researches concerning longer life-span situation. One type of research is published in Science and has two parts.
The first part is called GWAS, or "genome-wide association study." About 1,000 people over 100 years old were part of the New England Centenarian Study. The obtained data was compared to a normal aging group of people; their number was also about 1,000. 70 genes were found in centenarians, repeating the study to a smaller group gave the result of 33 genes.
To make sure that everything is fair-and-square, disease-causing genes were examined in both of the groups, centenarians and normal aging people. It was confirmed that centenarians were exposed to disease as much as the normal aging people. The interesting thing is that strong immunity was given to the centenarians by the genes, ergo, longer healthy days.
150 people, centenarians and normal aging people, underwent the model research without the knowledge of who has 70 genes of longer life. The model was 77 % accurate in his prediction to which group the subject belong to. It gave 19 different genetic combinations in the centenarians.
An interesting fact about this is that 15 % had those combinations, meaning that 15 % of us should reach the age of 100 years old, and even more. But reality bites with the result of 1 in 6,000.
There are scientists that greet these results and consider them good data for future research. There are others that counter them stating that the number of people in the research is not enough.
Science confirms the fact that genes have major role in longer life. But it also, firmly states, that if you don't take care of your body, it won't be able to take care of you. Healthy nutrition and exercising on a regular schedule is a perfect natural way to contribute years on your calendar. Every body is undergoes aging; so, make it a healthy aging process.
