Female bodybuilders who smoke cigarettes

More ideas from Petr. Pinterest doesn't work unless you turn on JavaScript. People have strong ideas about why they live longer, Atzmon says. Why do people lose muscle mass as they age, and why do smokers lose it faster?

One of the women was a heavy smoker, nearly half were overweight and only 2. Louis Shenkman, who found a simple biomarker for biological age in humans; and BGU professors Ester Priel and Gideon Grafi, who found that aging cells pass through the stem cell-like state at which they could be re-directed. Recently, prominent Israelis in this field at home and abroad gathered with international counterparts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev BGU for the eighth European Congress of Biogerontology — the first time this event was held in Israel. Last year, Bar-Ilan University molecular biologist Haim Cohen revealed in Nature that over-expression of the protein SIRT6 increased survival rates in male laboratory mice by as much as 15 percent above normal, catching them up to their naturally longer-living female peers. But every one of the steps can be inhibited.

By modulating the activity of these genes in advanced age, it could be possible to combat major diseases. A group of graduate students working under Prof. The field of biogerontology began in Israel, and recently world experts gathered here to compare their latest exciting findings. Pinterest is using cookies to help give you the best experience we can.