The hormonal fountains of youth: myth or reality?

摘要: There has been a long search for the best approach of ensuring successful aging. The remarkable demographic transformations in this century have not only led to increased medical needs older people, who often multiple chronic conditions, decrements functional ability and age-related disease, but also increase social expenditures, such as pension funds health insurance support them. Therefore, it is no wonder that there now great endeavor find fountain youth both society individuals. In review each hormones suggested play role rejuvenating persons, ie, so-called "hormonal youth" briefly discussed. Any hope stop people from getting older, however, way off, with science just beginning understand complex genetic, physical hormonal causes An essential, still unanswered question, whether decline hormone systems physiological, perhaps conveying benefit, or if changes are pathological, causing harm. Modern research has, demonstrated concept predominantly mythological.