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The biology of human longevity
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ISBN: 9780123736574 0123736579 9786611037215 1281037214 0080545947 9780080545943 9781281037213 6611037217 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam Boston Academic Press

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Written by Caleb Finch, one of the leading scientists of our time, The Biology of Human Longevity - Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans synthesizes several decades of top research on the topic of human aging and longevity particularly on the recent theories of inflammation and its effects on human health. The book expands a number of existing major theories, including the Barker theory of fetal origins of adult disease to consider the role of inflammation and Harmon's free radical theory of aging to include inflammatory damage. Future increases in lifespan a

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