Eternity Soup by Greg Critser

Author:Greg Critser
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-fiction, Science
ISBN: 9780307462503
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2010-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Am I growing tits? I ask this because, for all the high-flown discussions about DNA damage, glycation rates, GHRKO mice, and caloric restriction, tits, male tits, are the real issue with aging men in America. And I don’t want them. Yet I read in the scientific literature that while too little testosterone causes hypogonadism and, thus, gynecomastia, so does too much testosterone. I ask Rothenberg about it. He replies, “It could be that the testosterone/estrogen ratio is low and E dominant with hypogonadism. High T can cause it if there is a lot of aromatization [a type of conversion to E] and even though the ratio is OK the absolute amount of E is over a threshold.” Upon examination, it is clear that I have what most aging American men have—chubby pecs, not actual glandular growth, or true gynecomastia.

But Rothenberg’s message reminds me how much I have come to think of my body as a test tube. It seems to me that antiaging medicine—just like CR—requires an enormous amount of self-absorption to work, a constant monitoring of enzymes and vitamins and hormones and proteins. I wonder whether, in an age of such tremendous self-absorption, including my own, it’s the best way to go. Perhaps I am simply being lazy, but part of me asks: Can’t I just chuck all this and go in for a tune-up once in a while? Instead of trying to make a perfectly running car (as in CR), or giving the car all kinds of expensive new fuels (as in hormonal, or cash, therapy), can’t we reengineer it occasionally to just keep running?

As I was soon to find out, a whole new field of antiaging science and medicine is trying to do just that.

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