Your body gets older every day, this is caused by genetic damage in DNA replication. Ever wonder what repairs all that damage you do to your body?

During DNA each DNA replication, our bodies repair genetic damage, it is cause by a gap left in RNA primer at the end of DNA replication. It is the telemore which repairs this genetic damage,
it fills the gap that was left in your DNA that causes damage, but over time telomeres degrade, more and more each time it is used, as nucleotides are lost. This means once the telomere has repaired so much damage, it loses its function which will result in cellular death.
Although your body does not repair your telomores, BIOTECHNOLOGY has methods in repairing telomeres.

A telomere is a region of repetitive nucleotide sequences at each end of a chromosome, which protects the end of the chromosome from deterioration or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes. Its name is derived from the Greek nouns telos (τέλος) 'end' and merοs (μέρος, root: μερ-) 'part.' Telomere regions deter the degradation of genes near the ends of chromosomes by allowing chromosome ends to shorten, which necessarily occurs during chromosome replication.[1] Over time, due to each cell division, the telomere ends become shorter.[2]

During cell division, enzymes that duplicate DNA cannot continue their duplication all the way to the end of chromosomes. If cells divided without telomeres, they would lose the ends of their chromosomes, and the necessary information they contain. The telomeres are disposable buffers blocking the ends of the chromosomes, are consumed during cell division, and are replenished by an enzyme, telomerase reverse transcriptase.

wikipedia has a little bit of a definition on telomeres,
try typing "telomere" on yahoo engine, wikipedia.org should be listed

Now lets talk about the critters that do not share our genetic constraints with aging!!!


http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Recorded-Longest-Lived-Animals-60688.shtml

. . . and apparently there exists jelly fish that maybe be hundreds of years old, and a fungus in the NW of US that may be the largest and oldest living species on earth.

Just image what we could do with the knowledge to adapt humanity to include these same properties.

Social Security would go broke!

Yes but us old farts could be young enough to go get jobs.