Aging And Disease: A Root Cause Analysis

Aging and disease are separate entities. A disease is a process within the animal or plant that impairs normal function. Aging occurs within the normal bounds of biology. As science progresses new treatments are developed at a considerable rate and potential expense 3. Many treatments are discovered by chance and observation. Mechanisms or the immediate pathogenesis or "how” diseases of old age effect patients are the prime determinants of what is studied. We are suggesting a consideration “Why" particular diseases occur in old age may prove useful as a root cause analysis of the problem, considering human Life History and its evolutionary origins. Life history theory Del Giudice M (2014) An Evolutionary Life History Framework for Psychopathology. Psychological Inquiry 2014; 25: 261–300. considers whether events in a person’s lifetime may be reactively shaped by natural selection to produce the largest possible number of surviving offspring. These events include the considerations and constrains of childhood development, age of sexual maturation, first reproduction, and number of offspring and level of parental investment, menopause, senescence and …show more content…
Why organisms age or senesce at all and why our particular species has the time frames and disease pattern in particular may help inform research programmers as to the deeper causes of ageing , senescence and particular diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and what might be done to treat or better still prevent