![]() The variety seen as people become older is not spontaneous. These alterations are not linear or continuous, but they are merely tangentially related to a user’s chronological age. If you take care of and maintain it, the car might work fine for a decade, but if you are not very good at it, you might end up with a broken engine within 3 years. ![]() Our productivity and metabolic functioning slowly start deteriorating as we grow older and continue till our death, unless, we control it. The phenomenon of ageing is defined as the accumulation of anatomical and physiological alterations that happen to us over a while. But, if ageing is universal to all individuals, why are some people ageing faster than others? Why is your friend from college, looking younger or older than you, despite being the same age? How are Bollywood and Hollywood actors at 50-60 years of age able to pull off the vitality of a 30-year-old? And why do we keep saying that “Age is just a number.”? So what exactly is ageing and why is it the main reason for mortality? Most of us believe that ageing is universal, inevitable and inescapable. ![]() To die we have to age and ageing is something most of us are afraid of, as it brings with it the most dreadful: frailty and diseases. But if we try to think about it, the truth behind the phrase is a little scary. “Till death do us apart” … is a very common phrase used by lovers at weddings.
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