Week 1: Friday scientific inspiration – On age and aging
Would you like to be inspired by a biogerontologist?
1955. That’s the number Suresh Rattan can read on his birth certificate. He is a senior researcher at Aarhus University. He says that thanks to evolution we can not imagine ourselves older than 45, and in biological terms we should just give up the spirit once we have raised a few faithful copies of ourselves.
We are born, we grow, develop, mature, get children, grow old, and die, tells Suresh Rattan in its book “Age”, which was just released in Denmark in January 2017.
But age and aging are not as simple as it sounds. Not only is our age going forward. It also goes backwards depending on how we feel and how we look at ourselves.
I would like to introduce our guest teacher Suresh Rattan
He can tell why we get lifestyle diseases after 45 years and that it’s not genetics that determines it but actually our lifestyle.
His role in the course is not therapeutic, but to inspire you with new knowledge of aging.
Meet Suresh Rattan:
Suresh Rattan is our guest teacher. He can tell why we get lifestyle diseases after 45 years and that it’s not genetics that determines it but actually our lifestyle. His role in the course is not therapeutic, but to inspire you with new knowledge of aging. He is a senior researcher, PhD. and dr.scient. at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University. He has published over 250 articles and 15 books on age and aging. And he is a very inspiring gentleman!
About Suresh Rattan, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suresh_Rattan
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