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Gerontology and Eugenics. Can we hope for life extension?"
Making human life as long and as comfortable as possible is the main goal of many researchers in the field. The goal splits into numerous specific tasks – from prevention of hereditary diseases and elimination of factors causing various diseases and ailments to modification of genetic mechanisms responsible for aging of human organism. Gerontologists spare no efforts giving us persistent recommendations (which no one would cast doubt at), such as no smoking, regular physical activity, healthy diet, limited consumption of alcohol, weight control, avoid harmful exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, etc., avoid stress, take regular medical checkups. Hereditary factors, such as the quality of the genome inherited from the parents, play an important role in one's life expectancy...
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