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Ageing: The Increase In Human Life Spans

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The endeavor of every human being is to reach the maximum limit of his life span. One of the hall marks of 20th century was the increase in human life span expectancy worldwide. This has neither eliminated the final destination - The Death, nor the changes associated with the inevitable process - The aging. The rapid pace of scientific achievements in the medical and biological field has only discovered the control of some infectious diseases which are the cause for most of the deaths. These scientific achievements resulted in remarkable growth of the elderly population percentage in most of the developed countries.

Scientists have confront with a challenge of discovering the more fundamental …show more content…

Moving further, at some point of the life span, these changes in the molecular metabolism and the cellular parameters decrease and gradually come to an end, which could be a primary cause of Ageing. The ageing process which involves multiple changes in molecular and cellular level, gradually leads to the biochemical modifications with a drastic change in the tissue regulation and homeostasis. Numerous studies says that, through age there is a reduction of DNA repair capability and accumulation of mutations with damaged DNA, causing a decline ratio in total metabolic activities and that may lead to death. There are several type of medicines which announces that, they will decrease the aging process or tried convincing to rely on some anti-aging drugs, but none of them have been in the race when it comes to the reality. But, people who believe in ayurveda claims that it maintains the total health and metabolic activity which might help to slow down the ageing process without any side …show more content…

Ayurvedic medicine is a system of conventional medicine basically adopted in Indian subcontinent for its health and rejuvenation. Ayurvedic rasayanas, are the powerful antioxidants or to regulate the immunity agents aimed to restore cellular homeostasis and maintain overall physiological balance so that the chances of getting the diseases are controlled. However, there is a less number of scientific evidence of these rasayanas on encouragement of longevity and there are few reports on their role as anti-mutagenic or anti-ageing capacity. Our studies was aimed to check the beneficial effects of Amalikirasayana, supplied to us by Arya vidya sala, kottakal, kerala, on maintenance of genomic stability and DNA repair capacity in ageing Wistar rat

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