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his planned-obsolescence theory focuses on the genetic programming encoded within our DNA. We are born with a unique genetic code, a predetermined tendency to certain types of physical and mental functioning, and that genetic inheritance has a great deal to say about how quickly we age and how long we live. To use a macabre analogy it's as though each of us comes into the world as a machine that is preprogrammed to self-destruct. Each of us has a biological clock ticking away set to go off at a particular time, give or take a few years. When that clock goes off it signals our bodies first to age and then to die.

However, as with all aspects of our genetic inheritance the timing on this genetic clock is subject to enormous variation, depending on what happens to us as we grow up and on how we actually live (the old "nature versus nurture" debate).

Anti-aging medicine addresses this issue by augmenting the basic building blocks of DNA within each of our cells, preventing damage to and increasing repair of DNA. In this way we believe anti-aging treatment can help us escape our genetic destinies, at least to some extent.

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