The Grand Biological Clock (gnv64)

The Grand Biological Clock (Science for Everyone series)
By V.M. Dilman
Translated from the Russian by M. Rosenberg
Mir Publishers, Moscow | January 1989 | ISBN 5-03-000769-5 | 424 pages | 8.7 mb
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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.

Vladimir Dilman was a famous Soviet endocrinologist and oncologist. In late 1980s he emigrated to USA, where published this English updated version of the originally Russian and thin book. The book appears a little bit outdated in 2010 because we had some discoveries in last ten years. But it really doesnt matter. Why? Because the real beauty of the scientific book is not in the page number or concentration of the ideas in the text, but how the ideas are presented to the reader. How they are clear for the reader.

CONTENTS
Introduction 7
Chapter 1. Hierarchy of Control in the Organism: the Role of the Hypothalamus 31
Chapter 2. Stress and Diseases 50
Chapter 3. The Law of Deviation of Ho-meostasis 69
Chapter 4. Hyperadaptosis: a Normal Dis-ease of tne Adaptational Ho-meostat 96
Chapter 5. The Climacteric: Normal Dis-ease of the Reproductive System 106
Chapter 6. Age-Related Changes in Appe-tite Regulation 126
Chapter 7. Obesity: a Normal Disease of Energy Homeostat 139
Chapter 8. Obesity: The Disease of Dis-eases 151
Chapter 9. Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Immunodepression 163
Chapter 10. Cancer and Cancrophilia 184
Chapter 11. Aging: the Most Universal Dis-ease. The Role of Random and Regular Processes 227
Chapter 12. Four Models of Disease De-velopment 275
Chapter 13. What Is the Norm, or the Grand Biological Clock and the "Certificate of Health" 293
Chapter 14, Age-Related Norm and Accele-rated Development 304
Chapter 15. The Female and the Male: Four and Three Stages of Life 315
Chapter 16. To Treat or Not to Treat? How to Retard Aging 324
Chapter 17. On the Path to Integral Medicine 353
Epilogue 395
Subject Index 422