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Ageing – Why Do We Get Old?
Published 3 months, 1 week ago
Description
Getting older feels so inevitable that we rarely ask why it happens at all — but ageing is a genuine scientific puzzle, and researchers are steadily uncovering what actually wears out in a body over time. This episode explores the biology of getting old.
You’ll come away understanding why cells can’t divide forever, what telomeres and cellular senescence are, why ageing isn’t a single process but many, and where the science of living longer honestly stands.
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Further reading: National Institute on Ageing – “What causes ageing?”; Nature – “The hallmarks of ageing”; Andrew Steele, Ageless.