I thought the reading this week was very interesting, and definitely got me thinking about aging. The oxidation theory was very intriguing to me. With my major not being at all related to the field of science I was able to learn a lot about the complexity of the theory. Some of it was difficult for me to grasp, but it was still very interesting. It's weird to think that oxygen works in both a way to keep us alive and age us.
I appreciated that the metabolic processes were put into easier to understand terms of rusting and browning. Browning being described as what happens to meat when being cooked, and rusting as more of the build up of free radicals. This made it easier to understand the processes and put them more into context.
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