Retarding aging - Healthy aging

dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate (DHEASS) (adrenopause). Hence, there have been several reports of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to delay or prevent some of the consequences of aging. However, HRT is not without sideeffects. We should use “aging” synonymously with “senescence” rather than merely to describe the actual age of the person.2 The desire for ageless bodies covers the pursuit not only of longer lives, but also of lives that remain active longer. It involves not only to add years to life but also to add life to years. For life extension, one may consider three broad approaches. 1. Efforts to cut down infant mortality and other causes of death due to infections in young people so that people live to old age. Developed countries have achieved this goal. 2. Efforts to further prolong the lives of elderly persons by reducing the incidence and severity of diseases during middle age.