"The investigation shows that recovery rate is an important signature of aging that can guide the development of drugs to slow the process and extend health span," said David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School professor of genetics. This is the hope of the researchers - that it might light the way when it comes to not only maximizing life span, but also a higher quality of life across that span. explains why even most effective prevention and treatment of age-related diseases could only improve the average but not the maximal lifespan unless true antiaging therapies have been developed," adds co-author Andrei Gudkov, from the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. The study's conclusion that the body loses all ability to cope - or at least to recover - from stress before age 150 is line with the conclusions of similar studies, including one from last year that pegged the maximum possible human age at 138 years. The new research contains a certain amount of validation for the idea that humans start dying from the moment we're born, but the process seems to speed up significantly somewhere in the mid-thirties to mid-forties when the body's resilience starts to decline more steeply.
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"Aging in humans exhibits universal features common to complex systems operating on the brink of disintegration," Peter Fedichev, co-founder and CEO of Gero, said in a statement. As people experienced different stressors, fluctuations in blood cell and step counts showed that recovery time grew longer as individuals grew older. They looked at blood cell counts as well as step counts recorded by wearables. The researchers arrived at this conclusion by looking at health data for large groups from the US, the UK and Russia.
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In other words, at some point your body loses all ability to recover from pretty much any potential stressor.
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Extrapolate this decline further, and human body resilience is completely gone at some age between 120 and 150, according to new analysis performed by the researchers.