User:Mitteldorf

Evolutionary biologist, musician, yoga teacher, student of scientific heresies in all fields. PhD in astrophysics. Editor at OpEdNews. Statistician for the Election Integrity movement.

I am the author (with Dorion Sagan) of a forthcoming book on why we age, from an evolutionary perspective. Aging is programmed into our genes, a self-destruct mechanism governed by a biological clock. One implication of this is that the Selfish Gene version of evolutionary biology is missing something big. Evolution works in ways that are more communal, less selfish. A second implication is that popular paradigms of Western medicine, including "natural medicine" can't address the issues of aging. We can't shut down the body's self-destruction mechanisms by supporting or helping it with natural healing. What we can do is to trick the body into thinking it is younger than it is, speaking to the body in its own language of hormones and cytokines.