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The Art of Keeping Telomeres from
Fraying and Losing crucial information
So how are your ‘telomeres’
doing? Mine seem okay so far but now I have something else to worry about. How about you?
‘You never heard of
Telomeres?’ you say… well no wonder you are becoming miserable old toad!
We were at a wedding recently
where my wife and I sat not far from a guy that was about our age. Conversation was intermittent with the old
guy. And most everything that we talked about
was the old days. Conversation also
included the common aches and pains that we all seem to have. In one comment the old guy stated that he would
never do something because that was “for the younger generation”. Nothing we talked about seemed to convince
this man that it could be fun. He has
grown old too soon.
My wife’s comment later
about our conversation was, “That poor guy is really old… but he is younger
than I am!”
Aging is a problem for most
of the folk that I know. I hang around old people too much. The reason being is that we are about the
same age… and we find each other in crowds – like a wedding or a restaurant. The colour of our hair, the way we walk and
the perhaps even the way that we dress shouts to others that we are “OLD!”
In another setting the old
gal sitting across from me startled the rest of her friends by stating flatly, “I
don’t know why I woke up this morning! I
have lived too long and wish I was dead!!”
None of us knew what to say to her adamant attitude. She was old and
didn’t want to live any longer. She explained that at 97 and soon to be 98 she
had outlived all her friends and now many younger than she was were dead as
well.
It was two weeks later that
Marg died… and got her request to not be alive any longer. As well all sat thinking about Marg after the
information was settling into our psyche… one person said, “I miss Marg…”
Marg had lived along time
and her body was now too frail to allow her to do anything meaningful – in her
mind. What she valued the most was
activity – but now at 97 she could do little.
Why talk about these two
rather depressing people and their attitudes?
Well according to the
article that the Globe and Mail published a little bit ago, telomeres are the problem. Actually the problem is what has happened to
our telomeres – then break off, fall off, disappear… and they are associated
with our body’s ability to refresh or replace its cell structure that starts to
fade with time.
When we are young the cells
we lose are replaced with new ones… but as we age the cells simply are not
replaced because of telomeres being shortened.
Now in case you think I am a
scientific genius – or know lots about this ‘telomere stuff’ – I do not! And I
am not a SG… but I read lots.
Here is the quote from the Globe
and Mail article of June 22, 2013 – “How
science plans to help us live to 150 – and soon” …
Quote… “It involves telomeres –
which, if you haven’t had to think about this yet, are tiny structures at the
ends of your chromosomes that keep them from fraying and losing crucial bits of
genetic information. What interests researchers who study aging is that when
cells divide, their telomeres get shorter. Once they get too short, cells stops
dividing and may die. Played out across the whole body, there’s mounting
evidence that shorter telomeres translate into increased susceptibility to
diseases and the gradual wearing out of tissues that is the hallmark of old age.” End quote
Sorry about this post in
advance… now you are going to get even older today as every joint will hurt a
little more, every wrinkle will look a little more exaggerated… specially for
all my old friends that will be looking into this Blog post.
I haven’t got time to get
old… specially today. In a half hour from now I have to be on the road to Lang
Pioneer Village where I will be meeting hundreds of new people… and loving it!
Gotta run… I am too young to
be old today… tomorrow I might feel it… but for today the telomeres look good…
yahoo! Gotta – Git r did!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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2 comments:
Searching reddit.com I noticed your website book-marked
as: Blogger: From the Desk of Murray Lincoln. Now I am assuming you book marked it yourself and wanted to ask if social
bookmarking gets you a ton of traffic? I've
been thinking about doing some bookmarking for a few of my websites but wasn't certain if it would yield any positive results.
Thanks.
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Hey there HGTV Kitchen Design - good to get your comment.
I know of reddit.com... but I didn't bookmark this one for my Blog. The way that I Blog is mainly by topic - which then people find by a search.
My Blog is simply as you can see... I just passed the 231,000 pages read mark after 4 years and 10 months on this one.
It is a great journey.
My ultimate goal is traffic to my Web Site - where orders are received - then I carve and deliver orders.
Nothing fancy but it works.
My email is murray.lincoln@gmail.com if you would like to discuss it more directly.
Murray
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