Every second your body produces 2.5 million red blood cells. Which means that each day your body produces around 200 billion red blood cells. On top of that, your body creates billions of white blood cells and around 400 billion platelets per day (platelets...
As we age, senescent cells arise everywhere in our body. Senescent cells are cells that are damaged but refuse to die. Despite their damage, and their malfunctioning, they keep lingering on. Some scientists call them “zombie” cells, because they normally should...
During aging, our tissues become crosslinked. Crosslinks are connections (“links”) formed between the building blocks that make up our tissues. For example, sugar molecules are able to form crosslinks between proteins like collagen, which is an important...
Telomeres are the “caps” on our DNA which protect our DNA. Just like shoestrings have plastic caps to protect them from unraveling, our DNA strands have telomeres that protect them against unraveling. Telomeres are made of DNA themselves. But this DNA does not...
What’s the best skin care routine to reduce wrinkles and look younger? For most people, it’s difficult to find a proper answer to that question. Lot's of skin care advice is of low quality. Some important reasons for this are the following: 1. Lot's of (online)...
Likely, the biggest breakthrough in medicine of all time will be the reversal of the aging process. The reasons for this are logical and obvious, but are still all too little known, even by the medical community and in the field of biotechnology and pharma....
DNA contains the instructions to build our cells, and so our body. Consider the DNA as an instruction manual for how to build a human. DNA contains the code for making thousands of different proteins, which build up our cells and carry out most of the functions...
The mitochondria are the powerplants of our cells. They generate the energy cells need to function. The reason why we eat food and breathe oxygen is to mainly keep our mitochondria going. The sugars, fats and amino acids from our food, and the oxygen we...
Each cell in our body contains millions of proteins. Proteins are the building blocks of our cells. Proteins are also the working horses given they carry out most of the functions in our cells. For example, there are proteins that form channels (gates) in the...
The epigenome plays an important role in aging. The epigenome determines which genes are switched on or off. As we get older the epigenome becomes more dysregulated, leading to genes that are switched on that should be switched off, like pro-cancer or...