The Biology of Aging

Some animals are so good at repairing themselves that their risk of death doesn't change with time. In biology we call negligible senescence, which is just the biological term for growing old. The tortoise on the cover of my book is because that is a negligibly cenescent animal. It's an animal whose risk of death stays constant when it becomes an adult. That means that they can live an incredibly long time. They also don't have any increase in frailty as they get older. And so i hope that by understanding the biology of aging, we can try and transfer some of ou wisdom and some of thoseof biological techniques to keep us sprightly into our old

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