How Senescent Cells Build Up in Your Body @longevitymedicalclinic

What are senescent cells? Every cell in our body is designed to do a particular job for a particular period of time, at which point it runs to the end of its lifespan and is supposed to die. We call it autophagy, that is self-eating. It's supposed to die and fall apart and be replaced by a new cell. But a small percentage of cells hit that endpoint, and instead of dying, they basically become cellular zombies. They stop doing what they're supposed to do. They start kicking out anti-growth, anti-healing, anti-repair chemicals into their environment. They become the living dead of the cellular world. The problem is those anti-growth, anti-healing chemicals that they kick out poison healthy cells and turn them into these cellular zombies. And so as we age, we start accumulating these.