The Grand biological clock = Bol`šie biologičeskie časy

Today, as a result of social progress and developments in medicine, the average human lifespan exceeds seventy years. Is this the limit? Why do we age? What mechanism lies at the base of this phenomenon, and are there means to retard it? What is the physiological norm for each age group? The author, who is a professor and Doctor of Medicine, answers all these questions from the position of modern science. The book is intended for doctors, biologists, and anyone who is interested in contemporary biomedicine. The book was translated from the Russian by M. Rosenberg, translation edited by T. Juswigg and was first published by Mir in 1989. Cover Contents Introduction Chapter 1 - Hierarchy of Control in the Organism: the Role of the Hypothalamus Chapter 2 - Stress and Diseases Chapter 3 - The Law of Deviation of Homeostasis Chapter 4 - Hyperadaptosis: a Normal Disease of the Adaptational Homeostat Chapter 5 - The Climacteric: Normal Disease of the Reproductive System Chapter 6 - Age-Related Changes in Appetite Regulation Chapter 7 - Obesity: A Normal Disease of the Energy Homeostat Chapter 8 - Obesity: The Disease of Diseases Chapter 9 - Atherosclerosis and MetabolicImmunodepression Chapter 10 - Cancer and Cancrophilia Chapter 11 - Aging: The Most Universal Disease. The Role of Random and Regular Processes Chapter 12 - Four Models of Disease Development Chapter 13 - What Is the Norm?or The Grand Biological Clockand the "Certificate of Health" Chapter 14 - Age-Related Normand Accelerated Development Chapter 15 - The Female and the Male: Four and Three Stages of Life Chapter 16 - To Treat or Not to Treat? How to Retard Aging? Chapter 17 - On the Path to Integral Medicine Epilogue Subject Index Back Cover