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Hormones, Do They Slow Aging? - Dr. Heward (VIDEO)

Dr. Heward explains if women not taking hormones age faster than women taking hormone replacements.

Dr. Heward:
It’s a hard question to answer. It's difficult to answer a question about aging faster, particularly for someone like me who is in the business of trying to develop biomarkers of aging and actually measure aging. I can tell you pretty much unequivocally, we don’t know how to measure aging. We don’t know what aging is, but based on a number of biomarkers of aging and health risks, what I can tell you unequivocally is that women who are not on hormone replacement therapy decline functionally in many ways measurably faster than women who are on hormones and derive the benefits for that.

So in terms of functional capacity, hormones preserve youthful function, and the absence of hormones accelerates the loss of that function. To the extent that loss of function is aging, and it is, then hormones slow the aging process.

About Dr. Heward, Ph.D:
Dr. Christopher B. Heward is past-President of Kronos Science Laboratory. His primary responsibility was providing scientific and technical leadership for all laboratory activities. He oversaw the development and implementation of the clinical laboratory testing program; assisted in designing and refining both internally and externally sponsored clinical studies; directed and coordinated diagnostic product research and development; administered laboratory and patient databases; was principal investigator for the Kronos Longitudinal Aging Study (KLAS); and communicated Kronos’ discoveries and advances to lay and scientific audiences via presentations and publications. Dr. Heward’s research interests included healthy aging, endocrinology, oxidative stress, Alzheimer’s disease, prion disease (TSE) and menopause. Dr. Heward attended the University of Arizona and received a Bachelor of Arts degrees from both the Department of Psychology and the Department of Chemistry, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Biology. He earned his PhD from the Department of Biology in 1981.

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