“The aging organism may also be viewed as a system with chemical fluctuations caused by biological reactions in the organism. This notion takes the whole organism as collected microscopically ordered patterns resembling oscillating chemical reactions.”
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“In such reactions, the chemicals involved form a dissipative structure far from the equilibrium, which allowed the raw materials to be transformed to maintain as a certain self‐assembled biological structure that is ordered both spatially and temporally.....
However, it is harder to maintain such structures when the biological organization of an organism is constrained by its own biology and the genome evolution needed to maximize fitness, and is further impacted by age‐related changes...”
“diminishing the ability to effectively exchange and distribute substances and energy. Therefore, these spatially ordered biological structures collapse as the negative entropy flow cannot be effectively transferred from the environment into the organism...”
“Because the entropy of the system tends to increase, the organism must exchange substances with the environment to battle the increasing degree of disorder of the biological system over time, and it is increasingly unable to do so.”
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This was @VadimGladyshev from
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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