Do we not understand enough about the human body? I have heard that we don’t fully understand the mechanism behind aging and this got me wondering. I mean our body seems to be like one of the first things we’d investigate, and yet we seem to know less than I had originally thought.
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We do understand how aging works. It’s simply accumulated errors in DNA replications. Whenever cells divide, there’s a small chance that the DNA makes errors during this process. This is simply still very difficult to fix, because we still don’t have the technology to repair DNA ourselves.
Also some parts of our bodies are not self-repairing or self-regenerating. If it grows once, then it’s a done-deal. Even if it’s completely self-repairing or self-regenerating, your DNA may also not anticipate how you would be like in hundreds or thousands of years. So there’s no guarantee that even this approach would make you immortal.
If we want to become immortal, then the way we heal ourselves should be unique to every injuries and errors that we make. It should be continuous and adapt to every situations.
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