Theories Of Aging

I am in no way a renowned geneticist, my interests are closely aligned with literature and film; however, there is one problem that everyone experiences that I would love to solve. Aging. I know it's outrageous to believe I could solve something that seems so natural, but since I was a kid I was always fascinated by genes. In one documentary I saw about the genes of fruit flies when I was younger mentioned that the burning of the telomeres due to stressors was the reason for aging. Since then I've looked into medical journals trying to understand different theories for aging and what was being done to try to stop it. My first idea was just to simply cap the telomeres to prevent outside stressors from affecting the telomeres. However, how would …show more content…
My idea was to take a virus and insert the person’s youngest cells into the head of the virus in place of the virus’s dna, not to stop aging but to reverse it all together by the virus attacking the body’s cells and destroy the older cells leaving the younger ones in place. However with further research I found that you can’t target a single person with a virus, it could backfire and and spread quickly to others. I tried to figure out another way to stop aging and although these are all theories, one theory that could have some weight is awakening a dormant gene, There are “sleeper cells” that lie dormant and just need to be activated. It would probably take decades or centuries to figure out which genes need to be activated, but just imagine a world where you wouldn’t have to worry about the elasticity of your skin, wrinkles or grey hair. Where you don't have to worry about losing your father when you just had child or grandchild, where you could live generations of historic events. I know I have no experience or background to know which genes need to be activated or how the trials would be like, but it's just an