Drastic Changes Of Aging

4. Discuss the physical and psychological changes associated with normal ageing. How can one minimise pathological ageing?

When a person thinks of aging, they can think of many things, from a baby getting taller, to an older person growing gray hair. A person’s body changes constantly throughout the span of their life. There is no helping it. While most people think of a person getting older as a person getting wrinkles, losing hair, and becoming more fragile, there are actually many other affects than just those. There are visible effects, and effects that are not visible by just looking at someone. In this paper, both types of effects will be discussed.

The article Understanding the Odd Science of Aging, characterize aging as “a progressive, generalized impairment of functions, resulting in an increasing vulnerability to environmental challenges and a growing risk of diseases and death.” In the article many theories are mentioned relating to why humans age such as the somatic mutation theory, telomere loss theory, mitochondrial theory, altered proteins theory and waste accumulation theory. Though

April 6th 1944 in her home in Jacksonville, IL Mary Lee Elizabeth Smith was born. This is my grandma. At 71 years old she is the youngest of 8 children. She herself had 6 kids before having a tubal ligation at the age of 27, which resulted in two adhesions that had wrapped around her colon. Other surgical procedures include getting her tonsils out at sixteen years old, the removal of a benign “knot” from her neck, a cyst removal from under her arm and bunion removal. She currently lives with congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and arthritis.

There are certain aspects in my life that define me as a person. Without these certain things, I wouldn’t be who I am today. These factors have a great influence on my life.

In different people’s eyes, experiences have different meanings through different kinds of people. Each experiences that individuals’ encounter which will make different individuals have different thinking. As the most successful experiences that individuals have this may lead them to a really high level that maybe others cannot be achieved. Also different kinds of experiences that hear from others may give you a really big impact or influences. For, Daniel Gilbert, a professor which studies human psychology, he writes the essay “Immune to Reality”, he thinks that people depend on “cooking the fact” in order to make the events which have negative side become to the positive side.  He also mentions the psychological immune system; this system

As we get older, natural changes occur in the way in which body systems are controlled. Some target tissues become less sensitive to the hormone that controls them. The amount of hormones produced can also change. The blood levels of some hormones increase, those of others decrease and those of some others remain unchanged. Hormones also break down (metabolize) more slowly. Many of the organs that produce hormones are controlled by other hormones.

There are many physical changes that accompany the aging process. All body systems can display changes as the body ages. Body systems that change because of the aging process include the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, neurologic, musculoskeletal, immune and the integumentary systems. The process of aging can differ according to genetic makeup. Some people age and have only minor effects from bodily systems and others have major disabling affects.

As the body begins to age, some changes will be more obvious than others. Skin loses its elasticity and wrinkles and sagging become visible. Hair will lose its lustre and begin to thin out in men. These changes might make women, especially, lose confidence because society puts such an emphasis on females’ physical appearance. There are many products available such hair dyes, make up and medical procedures for the reversal of wrinkles and sagging skin. In recent year men as well as women use products to help delay signs of aging. The fact that the beauty industry is a thriving business, shows how insecure people are about the physical appearance of age.

Epigenetic changes are currently recognized as part of the aging process and have been implicated in many age-related chronic diseases such as AD (1–3). The term epigenetics includes a variety of processes known to regulate gene expression in a stable and potentially reversible way, without altering the primary DNA sequence (4). Since epigenetics allow for the integration of long-lasting non-genetic inputs in the genome, research on age-related disorders have recently focused in epigenetic mechanisms, and a growing number of epigenetic alterations in AD have been described recently (5).

Literary Analysis Do experiences shape your life? Do personal experiences make you more valuable to people. Do personal experience explain your whole life story? Ortiz Cofer shows that personal experience can help change the shape of someone's values.

Changes are a natural progression through life. They either come on their own, without our consent, beyond our control, or because we took control and strove for it. Changes can be good, neutral, or bad. But one thing is for certain, there will always be changes.

Aging is a process that all people alive are constantly going through everyday and every year. From the reading “Aging occurs within a social context: one’s social class, education, occupation, gender, and race will determine how one experiences adolescence or old age.” In the United States until a person reaches the age eighteen years old they are considered, to be in school and, are still seen as being a child, and until after high school graduation or eighteen they can bee seen as a man, woman, or adult. In different cultures a child can be considered a man or woman at a younger age. The examples I know off the top of my head are Quinceañera’s and Bar Mitzvahs. Bar Mitzvah’s are used in the Jewish culture and are seen as when a boy turns

There are many ways to stop the signs of aging. There is the wrong way, which can lead to skin cancer and the natural method to stopping the signs aging. One of the natural methods to stop the signs of aging is to avoid consuming too much alcohol. While it proven that many drink alcohol beverages, the main purpose to have fun at party, and some think it a way to release stress, which is another sign of aging. Consuming too much will not only cause lung cancer, but will clog any blood flow around the facial area.

The human body changes every day as it gets older. These changes form part of the growth pattern from childhood to adulthood. The changes show limits as parts stop growing or decrease in size. Height stops or reduces in measurement. The Human’s body hair disappears or changes color overtime. After a while the skin sags and wrinkles with exposure to sunlight and chemicals. People’s teeth decay and change color with poor dental hygiene or tooth-damaging diets. People’s physical features undergo many natural changes that bears little resemblance to earlier stature. Everyone wants to live a happy healthy life but ignorance of body changes interfere with happiness.