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Aging CAN exist because it is shadowed from natural selection. Multiple causes may cause different kinds of aging that would occur at different speed. Faster (because natural selection promotes it) is aging caused by something that is essential early in life but harmful later
e.g. mTOR driven growth program (quasi-program of aging). “The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow” Slower, accumulation of molecular damage, because its harmful from day 1 (never useful), so natural selection does not promote it and even works against it
MTOR-driven quasi-program can be suppressed pharmacologically. And this is what is actually important. After all, according to Oscar Wilde, “What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul”
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
When quasi-programmed aging (aging as we know it) will be eliminated, then we may die from aging caused by molecular damage (at age 150 just for example)
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