Declining Resilience as a Manifestation of Aging

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/01/declining-resilience-as-a-manifestation-of-aging/

Resilience, meaning the ability to recover from wounds, infection, and other forms of damage, is more or less the flip side of frailty in aging. Frailty increases, resilience decreases. A damaged system is less robustly resilient to further damage, as reliability theory tells us. Degenerative aging is precisely an accumulation of cell and tissue damage at the molecular level, followed by all the myriad downstream dysfunctions and breakages caused by that damage. When we approach the treatment of aging, the guiding principle should be a focus on root cause damage and repair of that damage.

Decline in biological resilience …

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