Slow down aging is the key to combating diseases

A group of aging experts from the US and UK suggest that the best strategy for the prevention and management of a variety of chronic diseases is to focus on the slowdown in biological processes of ageing.

"The traditional medical approach to attacking individual ailments-cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease-soon be less effective if we cannot determine how these diseases interact or share common mechanisms with aging," S. Jay Olshansky says Professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of public health and senior author of the comment.

Middle-aged and older people are most commonly used by simultaneous but independent medical conditions would have betroffen.Eine cure for each of the major killer diseases only a marginal impact on life expectancy and the length of healthy living, Olshansky said.

The authors suggest that a new paradigm of health promotion and disease could not produce never been social, economic and health dividends for current and future generations if the aging population with advanced healthy life years is provided.

Note that all living creatures, including humans, have biochemical mechanisms that affect how quickly we age and by dietary intervention or genetic modification, it is possible to move to extend life, diseases and aging-related processes.

Further research in laboratory models is expected to provide references and deeper understanding as existing interventions, such as exercise and good

Diet, can cause lifelong well-being.

The authors suggest also greatly increased funding for basic research in the "basic cellular and physiological changes, to drive the aging."

"" We believe that the potential benefits of slow aging processes were underrecognized by most of the scientific community have, said Olshansky.""We demand health research to support decision makers to significant resources and develop practical interventions that assign slow ageing in people."

The time for a "systematic attack on aging itself", this the authors of which makes age-related diseases and rising health care costs increase write.

Olshansky and colleagues claim that the modern medicine to extend invested efforts to life, and argue that a fresh emphasis on aging more efficient has the potential to improve health and quality of life than is currently possible.

Olshansky's co-authors are Dr. Robert Butler of the International Longevity Center in New York, Dr. Richard Miller of the University of Michigan, Daniel Perry of the Alliance for aging research, in Washington, Bruce Carnes and Dr. Marie-Bernard of the University of Oklahoma, Dr. t. Franklin Williams of the University of Rochester, Dr Christine Cassel by the American Board of internal medicine in Philadelphia, Dr. Jacob Brody UIC, Linda Partridge of University College London, Thomas Kirkwood Newcastle University and Dr. George Martin of the American Federation for aging research and University of Washington.

The analysis is posted on http://www.BMJ.com.

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