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Hiking, biking, golf, tennis, ten-nis, fishing, and snowmobiling are also among the countless activities that can fill your days when you stay at your home in Lakeside Village. And if relaxation is what you have in mind, you will not be disappointed. Our beautiful condominiums all have fireplaces, private decks, and hot tubs so that staying home can be just as enjoyable as venturing out. The timing is right for Lakeside Village. Only 76 units will be built and just a few of the completed units are still available so call now. Prices start at $239,900. - Fully Furnished Open house daily 10 to 6 v HERE'S TO YOUR H E ALTH by Joan Jacobson New theories on aging A ' -lift 1 H Birds have high metabolisms and burn lots of oxygen, yet they outlive mammals several sev-eral fold. We need to find the internal protective protec-tive mechanism that shields their cells from oxidation and cell death. " Joan Jacobson , One of my professors at the University of Southern California's (USC) Andrus School of Gerontology, Caleb Finch, one of the world's preeminent pre-eminent neurobiologists and a leading authority on dementia, was recently highlighted in Trojan Magazine. I was in awe of him while I was a doctoral doc-toral student, and am more so now. He was one of the pioneers, in 1972, who was instrumental in starting a new school of gerontology at USC, the first of its kind in the United States. Since then the Andrus Center, endowed by American Association of Retired Persons (AARP, and named after its' founder, has become the nation's foremost center for research on aging. Finch has been awarded most of the major awards in the field of biomedical gerontology and is the author of the internationally acclaimed: "Longevity, Senescence and the Genome" and "Aging: A Natural History." Finch's major interest is focused on understanding and treating Alzheimer's disease dis-ease (AD) and other forms of dementia that strike individuals as they grow older. His clinical i""111 research has taken him, and other scientists, to investigate wildlife biology such as studies involving long-lived birds, fish and turtles. These studies are revealing how certain species avoid the diseases of aging like cancer, heart disease and dementia. Turtles live until their late 60s. Other long-living creatures include the sea-going albatross, that lives up to 80 years, and the yellow-eye fish, that at 140 years still reproduces. Birds have high metabolisms and burn lots of oxygen, yet they outlive mammals several fold. We need to find the internal protective mechanism that shields their cells from oxidation and cell death. Finch thinks that research will head in this direction in the near future. Historically, Finch says that AD and dementia was equated with neuron failure in the brain. In the past 10 years, he has come to the conclusion that given an individual doesn't have a disease that attacks the neurons in the brain, those neurons remain healthy until you die. In spite of this, Alzheimer's remains one of the most debilitating and least understood degenerative disorder that afflicts four million and kills 100,000 Americans a year. According to Finch, in order to prolong life one must choose one's ancestors well. His own mother is now 95. His recipe for staying well is his own "sensible" diet consisting of plenty of red meat, red wine, fruits, and vegetables. He also takes vitamins C and E. He exercises regularly, swims in the ocean and takes long walks. "Moderation is key," he says. Additionally, you have to keep your blood pressure and blood sugar down. He also is exploring how lowering calorie intake may be used in treating AD patients. Some of Finch's research findings over the years include women who develop AD at a higher rate than men of the same age. He conjectures that this may be a result of a drop in estrogen post-menopause. post-menopause. He says that older males convert their testosterone into estrogen. This appears to decrease oxidation and inflammation of the brain cells. So far however, it has not been proven that estrogen replacement therapy has prevented AD in older women. Only time will tell. Some postmenopausal post-menopausal women may actually produce enough estrogen naturally to ward off AD while others do not. A major breakthrough in AD research occurred when Finch and his colleagues at Northwestern University described a new, never-before-seen form of the plaque-forming amyloid beta they call ADDL. Amyloid beta is the substance found in plaque i""""" that is found in the brains of individuals indi-viduals with Alzheimer's disease. ADDLs are soluble solu-ble and can diffuse everywhere in the brain. Amyloid betas are usually restricted to only one portion in the brain where they are first formed. ADDLs affect the same clusters of brain cells that atrophy or shrink in AD patients. Hypothetically, Finch says that we now have to block or disable the ADDLs. This is contrary to where the research has been directed in the past. He says, "we were looking look-ing at the spaghetti when the cause of Alzheimer's is really in the marinara sauce." Finch says "If not for aging, 95 percent of us would celebrate our centenaries and 50 percent of us would reach the seemingly astonishing age of 120 years." Wow! People won't be living routinely 120 years until the root causes of aging are found. Good genes can only get you so far. Besides lifestyle and genes, there is another theory that Finch is exploring, explor-ing, and that is chance. He wonders why identical laboratory worms die at different ages. Human twins also have unusual differences in life spans. His theory of chance playing a role in our life spans is still cqntroversial. However, Finch claims that we are on the threshold of truly understanding the mechanisms of aging. He thinks that eventually we will be able to see how relatively benign processes lead to pathological developments in the aging process. Are you ready to be 120 years old? Park City resident Joan Jacobson, PhD, RN, is an adjunct professor for the University of UtahCollege of Nursing. She is the author of Midlife Women. ' , ; a A a. A r 5 r ; fe v y; 'IN " - -"O- mm Milwit Ar-T. VOSV.CC,"" " t : --d.7--: ; 1 mm llltfV4 V 1 9t en to ot T flat Just tU. test IwvukJrs, Lrt k trutxJ, S.UJ& of custom boot frttioj expert tifso'i Ke. fit if mou Wt et oiJe. (vo hJoidekr sJAjOS MoJtuJ uretioiJ Experts ruoMMftiJoC RossiiJcf skis Loots for the. perfect fit. Aod M upgrades feHorMAJC. QEHraflS (4351 649-4949 WWW.lllS.CIB OOR C( |
