The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis by Peter J. M.D. Whitehouse & Daniel George M.Sc

Author:Peter J. M.D. Whitehouse & Daniel George M.Sc. [Whitehouse, Peter J. M.D.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2008-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

IS AGING IN THE GENES ?

In a front-page article appearing on August 31, 2006, Gina Kolata of The New York Times nicely summarized the vacillating scientific view on the role of genetics in aging:

The scientific view of what determines a life span or how a person ages has swung back and forth. First, a couple decades ago, the emphasis was on environment, eating right, exercising, getting good medical care. Then the view switched to genes, the idea that you either inherit the right combination of genes that will let you eat fatty steaks and smoke cigars and live to be a hundred or you do not. And the notion has stuck so that these days many people point to an ancestor or two who lived a long life and assume they have a genetic gift for longevity. But recent studies find that genes may not be so important in determining how long someone will live and whether a person will get some diseases—except, perhaps, in some exceptionally long-lived families. That means it is generally impossible to predict how long a person will live based on how long the person’s relatives lived.

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