Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World

Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World

Author: 
Lane, Nick
Place: 
Oxford
Publisher: 
Oxfor University Press
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384p. ill.
Date published: 
2003
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ISBN: 
978-0-19-860783-0
Call No: 
616.988.21 LAN
Abstract: 

Oxygen offers fresh perspectives on our own lives and deaths, explaining modern killer diseases, why we age, and what we can do about it. Advancing revelatory new ideas, following chains of evidence, the book ranges through many disciplines, from environmental sciences to molecular medicine. Damage to DNA caused by oxidative stress appears to explain aging and many of its diseases, hence the popularity in alternative health circles of antioxidants. But antioxidants alone fail to prevent aging. Lane suggests two different avenues of study: modulation of the immune system, which generates free radicals as part of its defense against infectious diseases; and ways of improving the health of our cellular mitochondria, on which many age-related ailments seem to depend. Provocative and complexly argued. Copyright (c)Kirkus Reviews, used with permission

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CITATION: Lane, Nick. Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World . Oxford : Oxfor University Press , 2003. - Available at: https://library.au.int/oxygen-molecule-made-world