Human civilization on the path to immortality
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Destruction, annihilation or death is inevitable in every creation. Birth to death is a continuous physiological process. Although death is a normal process, various diseases accelerate death. Cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, AIDS, etc. have been established. At the same time, at the same time, some other diseases have come to be considered as death disorders. Pharmacists and biologists are working tirelessly to cure and prevent these diseases. In some cases, the scale of their failure is no less heavy than their success. In some cases, they are on the verge of success.
At a time like this, if I say that human aging is a disease, then many people may disagree with me. Many will call it an infallible provision of nature or destiny. All life, including human beings, is born, then passes through childhood, adolescence and youth and dies one day. However, being the best creature of creation, man never accepted this death in an easy way. The pain of losing a loved one has hurt them. As a result, many in the past have tried to survive or become immortal with their influence. Many of these approaches were illegal and inhumane. Many heads of state or eminent persons have adopted various methods to make themselves immortal or immortal. Let's take a look at some of these methods.
Greek mythology mentions that when the goddess Yos appealed to her warrior lover Tethonas for immortality, Zeus granted her immortality, but the goddess Yos did not ask for immortality in her youth, or because she did not mention her age, Tethonas became obsolete and locked herself in a locked room.
The English philosopher Roger Bacon described aging as the loss of the soul or the loss of vitality. To prevent this, he suggested spending time with young girls.
French physician Charles Edward made the so-called injection of eternal youth from guinea pigs and dogs.
Robert Itinger, a physics teacher, founded a company in 1972 and encouraged everyone to save the human body. His comment was that one day science will be able to revive dead bodies, if they can preserve human bodies till that day, they will get life again. Arrangements are made to save the head or the whole human body in exchange for different amounts of money.
Besides, it is said that bathing with the blood of animals and in some cases with human blood was the way to become eternal youth or immortality. According to the eminent physician Ibn Sina, we would have lived for thousands of years if the earth's dust, sand, and chemicals had not entered our bodies. In this case it can be said that in ancient times our former men were long-lived. The holy book Al-Quran mentions many people who lived on earth for thousands of years. Aging is a disease but it is nothing new. Aging has been described as a disease in medical science since the 1950's. So let's not get into the debate of whether or not to accept old age, but let's shed some light on the relationship between commentary and activity in medical science.
The organism is a single cell of body structure and function. Depending on the structure and function of the cell, there are two types of cells, somatic cells and reproductive cells. Body cells are involved in the formation of the body and in the reproduction of germ cells. Cells contain various organs such as cytoplasm, nucleus, mitochondria, Golgi body, endoplasmic reticulum etc. Also some other elements include free radicals. They are basically atoms, molecules or radicals, they have free electrons so they can easily join other atoms or radicals to take part in the chain reaction. All these free radicals react with the cholesterol atom present in the cell to oxidize the cholesterol atom (removing hydrogen atom from the compound or adding oxygen atom to the compound). As a result, cholesterol atoms cause atherosclerosis in the lining of the arteries, causing plaque to build up in the lining of the arteries. In addition, the DNA (de-oxy nucleic acid) in the nucleus of the cell is often forced to adapt to mutations. It can often lead to cancer. Again the normal functioning of the mitochondria known as the power house of the cell may be impaired. Basically mitochondria break down glucose molecules present in cells into energy. Which is severely affected by the increase in the number of free-radicals and the recurrence of the above events as the mitochondria age or the mitochondria are damaged. And become unable to convert glucose into energy, resulting in more free radicals. Resulting in cell death. As a result, all the systems of our body gradually move towards destruction. We can call this phenomenon outwardly old age.
For many years, the above-mentioned phenomenon has been the main cause of aging of human cells. But later telomere science has helped us to know more deeply about aging. At the same time, new doors of possibilities have opened up before us.
In 1974, biochemist Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California and her student Carol Grader discovered the enzyme telomerase in unicellular organisms found in pond waste at the University. They won the Nobel Prize for this discovery. Since then, the science of telomeres, a combination of telomeres (cellular organelles) and telomerase enzymes, has continued to help us learn more about ourselves. The current state-of-the-art form of telomere science is Sierra Science.
Let's learn some information about telomeres. The main component of the chromosome located in the nucleus of the cell is DNA. The unit of DNA is the DNA-base. There are four types of DNA bases. These are cytosine (C), guanine (G), adenine (A) and thymine (T). Telomeres consist of six DNA strands. Telomeres are composed of a periodic arrangement of 2 thymine, 1 adenine, and 3 guanine. Through all of this DNA, telomeres form a cap on chromosomes and inhibit the formation of cancer cells. You must have noticed a round plastic cover on the heel of your shoe that protects the heel from slipping. In the case of chromosomes, telomeres do a lot of that. Telomeres also help in cell division. It also helps in cell division every time. Each time a cell divides, a mother cell becomes two offspring or new cells. And the chromosomes of the mother cell cannot be completely copied when they divide into two offspring cells. This means that some telomeric DNA decreases during each division. The rest of the chromosomes are no longer damaged. As a result, it is understood that in this way, telomeric DNA decreases proportionately in one cell division after another. The function of the telomerase enzyme is to synthesize DNA. But as a result of DNA deficiency, this work is also gradually reduced. The telomeres of human cells contain an average of 15,000 pairs of DNA bases. Due to the lack of telomerase enzymes in the embryonic cell, the telomeres of human cells contain about 10,000 pairs of DNA bases at birth.
It can be said that the telomerase gene is largely ineffective at this time. And even during this inactive or stagnant time of the enzyme, we continue to lose DNA. Thus, in order to spend our childhood, we lose an average of 50 to 5,000 pairs of DNA bases a year. This rate gradually decreases with age and at the age of about 25 we lose our ability to divide cells. As a result, the telomerase enzyme cannot or does not do what it needs to do in the cell. However, due to the misuse of their ability to synthesize, various stimulants are released or produced in the cells. All these harmful chemicals destroy the normal functioning of the cell and push the cell towards death. Whose appearance is to fall into old age.
