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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases. That's because ageing is not a disease - it is inevitable. But what if everything you think you know about ageing is wrong? What if ageing is a disease? And that disease is curable. In Lifespan, Dr David Sinclair, one of the world’s foremost authorities on genetics and ageing, argues just that.

Atrial fibrillation strikes one in four American adults. Not only do people suffering from this condition suffer from shortness of breath, fatigue, chest discomfort, decreased ability to exercise and do activities of daily living, arrhythmia, and palpitations, but their risk of a stroke, cognitive decline and dementia, heart failure, or premature death also shoots way up. Today, a whole new body of research - one most physicians are unaware of - shows that biomarker and lifestyle optimization may put half the cases of atrial fibrillation into remission without drugs or procedures.

The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.

Bis vor kurzem wusste die Wissenschaft nicht, warum und wie Lebewesen altern. Seit einigen Jahren fließen Milliarden in die Altersforschung; mit dem wachsenden Verständnis für die Funktionsweise des Epigenoms lösen sich viele Rätsel um die Entwicklung und die Veränderungen von Zellen und Organismen im Laufe des Lebens. David A. Sinclair ist Professor für Genetik an der Harvard Medical School und Pionier der epigenetischen Medizin. In diesem Buch erklärt er, auf welche Weise man Gesundheit und Lebensdauer steigern kann. Unser Epigenom nimmt über die Jahrzehnte Schaden.