Find out the culprit of the aging process

Aging is a term used to indicate a gradual decline in physiological status in the body with age. Specifically, the aging process weakens the muscles, reduces the body's ability to function, causing the senses to lose important characteristics. The cause of aging is explained by many different theories: genetic theory, free radical theory, .

Scientists have found the cause of the aging process

However, they still stop at a hypothetical level until yesterday when scientists at Leibniz Institute of Molecular Medicine ( Berlin - Germany) announced they had found the answer to this problem. .

The cause of the aging process has been revealed.

Specifically, the researchers said the cause of aging is that the endoplasmic reticulum loses its ability to oxidize , which causes the development of proteins to be disrupted. This is the direct cause of these proteins being turned into wrong-form proteins. In addition, it also causes oxidation at the cell wall - something scientists have never discovered before.

Normally, proteins need an oxidizing environment to grow. If the endoplasmic reticulum loses its oxidative ability, then the protein structure will be greatly impaired, which leads to cases of important proteins such as insulin or antibodies becoming unstable and leading to the fact that the biological system works poorly over time. This is the effect of the aging process.

Dr. Janine Kirstein, author of this study, said: " By this time, we have found the answer to the aging process. Thanks to this result, we were able to know because "Why do endocrine proteins become unstable and ineffective when we're old?"

With this result, scientists hope to make a breakthrough in studying new methods of prolonging life expectancy in the future.