I hear a lot of comments about how entropy is related to aging and death but I was reading up about it and I cannot seem to fully understand it.
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Your body spends a whole lot of energy reversing entropy.
Entropy would really like to redistribute the salt evenly in your body, and remove the electrical charges from your brain, and pop your blood vessels.
Lots of the energy from the food you eat is just used to keep that from happening. It’s called “homeostasis”.
But that’s the only connection, aging and death (from aging) is more because your cells can only divide so often.
Every time your DNA gets replicated a little bit is snipped off. You come prepared though and the beginning and end of your DNA is just a long stand of useless code that you won’t miss. Eventually – after at most 120 years – the useless stuff is gone and your actual genes you need to live are snipped and you die.
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