As mentioned earlier, Dr. W. Donner Denckla thinks he has discovered a death clock in the pituitary gland of the brain. If he removes this gland from mice and supplies them with the pituitary’s growth hormone and thyroid hormone (which would normally be produced and released in response to pituitary hormonal messages), the animals live […]
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- aging clocks, antioxidants, death clock, DECO, Decreasing Oxygen Consumption hormone, DNA, enzymes, free radicals, growth hormone, hypothermia, mutations, peroxidases, pituitary gland, superoxide dismutase, thyroid hormone, thyroxine
The production of slightly different versions of enzymes and hormones might also lead to autoimmune disease, since the immune system might identify some of these versions as foreign proteins and subsequently launch a self-destructive attack on the body’s own cells which produce them. Dr. W. Donner Denckla thinks that part of the death genes’ process […]
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