KINESIOL 4SS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Maximum Life Span, Senescence, Vo2 Max
12 Apr 2016
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Lifestyle factors (such as smoking, diet, exercise) can afect physiological systems and mimic natural biological aging. Decline can occur more rapidly or be prolonged/slowed down: physical acivity, diet, as well as social engagement can miigate slope of curve. Grandma vs. dad (grandma, 76, dad, 71 = but big diference in ability and lifestyle: injury can speed up physiological decline. Genes have a huge role in aging and the resistance to aging i. e. depending on genes you may age more rapidly, or look younger for much longer than another person. Important to know what"s going on, on geneic and cellular level. Lifespan (people are living longer and therefore studies have to be longer which is costly and ime consuming. Problemaic because we also need data from those who are not social, immobile etc. Understand diference between a review aricle and a primary research study (nb: most are primary: primary: scieniic method experimental design (ex.
