University of Debrecen is Researching the „Secret of Youth”

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Looking for the secret of youth in the most modern nano-technology lab at the Gerontology Department which is the only one in the country.The aging process can not be stopped, but we can make it slow. A healthy diet, physical and mental activity have a key role in the process, but we have to start it in a young age.

Aging begins in the moment of conception, despite the fact that it does not seem like that – said Imre Semsei, dean of the Faculty of Health, University of Debrecen.

Hungarian women’s life expectancy at birth is 79 years and a half, men can expect only 72 years. In the second half of most people’s life people are afflicted by diseases.

At the Department of Gerontology of the University of Debrecen, students and professors are looking for the solutions and they try to explore the reasons of aging.

According to the professor, thanks to the scientific work, the Faculty of Health can become a Faculty of Health Sciences.

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