Apart from Gerascophobia patients, those who have an abnormal fear of growing older or ageing, most of the normal people like us are also having the biggest nightmare, that we don't want to face it, in reality, is Aging and Death. We always try to overcome the fear of Aging, maybe because we don't want to die and We don't like to see the mirror with a weak body, blurry eyesight with a wrinkled face.
What is ageing? Why we are getting aged? It is possible for us to attain immortality? We wanted to achieve a longer lifespan because we afraid of death?
Recently I celebrated my Grandmother's 101st Birthday with all of my family members. We bought her a big white-forest cake, and we celebrated her birthday with her children's, grandchildren's, and great grandchildren's. She is the kindest women I ever met in my life. My grandmother never complained anything about her health. She is blessed with great physiological and psychological state. I'm so much proud of my Grandmother because she breaks through the average human lifespan of 79 years.
She does have wrinkles, blurry eyesight, sometimes she forgets things she wanted to say, but she never complained about that, I don't know how she accepted the ageing process. That day I learned, Aging is not getting weaker, it is about getting stronger in accepting the reality.
Now I know, why I need research to slow down the ageing process to postpone the death. First, I lack in accepting the reality. I believe my generation can't stand a chance against peoples like my grandmother in a longer lifespan. And I don't know whether I live long enough like her to see my great grandchildren's.
But still, we try our best to get at least near 80 years.
Like the way, I'm thinking most of us, including great researchers, want to slow down the process of ageing. But do you think only human deserves the immortality? Not only humans attain ageing, right? All living organisms getting aged.
Do we accept if other organisms attain immortality? No, we can't take it.
Then how this organism lives longer period than others ?. It has a special physiological state called Cryptobiosis, That we humans don't have by which reducing the metabolic level in adverse environmental condition.
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Like this microscopic organism, humans also facing various environmental condition. Unlike water bears, We do have special physiological states like other organisms. These states help us to maintain our biology to its maximum.
For many organisms, the skin plays a major role in interacting with the environment than any other organ. So humans care more about the skin than any other organs in our body. We care more about the skin not only because it shows our external beauty it also shows our age to others just by leaving some wrinkles. If we get some wrinkles naturally it shows that we are getting aged or some biological disorder like a vitamin deficiency or disease. But still, we don't want to accept our ageing system. At this point, many of us use external creams, anti-ageing products like skin lotions, wrinkle removers.
Anti-ageing products really work??
When we buy some products we can see the product says, It has Elastin, Collagen.
The simple biology can answer this. The product chemicals won't penetrate our skin because of its larger molecular size. If it penetrates it can communicate with our bloodstream and we will face some consequence.
Then why cosmetic industries using specific terms like Elastin and Collagen? Does that compound really reduce the ageing process?
The science says Yes if that compound produced naturally inside our body and No if that compound is from external sources like skin lotions or Maybe now the external products are not successful.
Elastin and Collagen are proteins which are naturally present in our body. One of the protein in our skin, which maintain our skin integrity is Elastin, having the molecular weight of 79 kDa (kilodalton), which is responsible for extensibility and elasticity gives the young look for some period of time. This protein Elastin is connected by an amino acid called Lysine which interlinks the Elastin protein and helps to maintain the elasticity and integrity. During ageing, these Lysine breaks naturally because of the lack of proper nutrition supply and environmental factor and makes wrinkles.
Then how the large protein of 79 kDa Elastin can easily enter the skin and replaces our natural Elastin and removes wrinkles and stops ageing as the name suggest Anti-aging.
Maybe that products are not that much successful now, but they have a long way to achieve their target. But we have plenty of natural resources which help us to maintain our skin healthy. Some fruits, vegetables and fishes can help us to maintain our skin healthy.
I won't say science will always be right, and It is nothing wrong to dream about longer Lifespan, But I don't know that we deserve it or not. The only thing is we don't have to accept the reality of ageing, as well as we don't have to believe that anti-ageing as our trump card, but we should believe and understand that ''We are not ageing, we are Evolving''.
Recently I checked an application Big Basked India. I bought things from an online grocery shop because, the place where I'm staying is not best for getting some fruits and fishes that I needed and it is not native to my place like Oysters, Indian Salmon. I also wanted to test the quality and I noticed they are selling a decent fruit and vegetable with good deals. I'm not recommending to go for it, You can go for the decent online products if you can't find things that you needed near you. Based on my experience last time, I attach some link for the fruits and vegetables with their uniqueness, that I bought which helps to maintain our skin integrity that you can get it at a good price.
Indian salmon (omega-3 fatty acid), Sweet potato, Carrots (vitamin A- Regenerates damaged collagen), Fresho Palak (vitamin C- has antioxidant) , Blackberry (Neutralize Free radicals), Soy milk, Tofu (Block MMP enzymes), White Tea (Protects structural proteins), Citrus Fruits (Vitamin-C), and Oysters (Vitamin B12 and Low calories).
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