An old emperor finds new clothing: rejuvenation in our time

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（1）
• 页码范围: 125-129
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1038/aja.2010.154

摘要

To cast this sage historical advice into contemporary terms,the eternal human predisposition to believe in flimsy promises of rejuvenation needs to be well understood,or repeated.As an ingenious species,we have made grand advances in overcoming the physical limits of our biology.Yet while technology has overcome our native ponderous,gravity-and land-bound locomotion with air,land and sea travel,the irreversibility of time and inevitability of death remain stubbornly unyielding.Even such prolongation of lifespan that we have achieved only reveals more starkly the progressive somatic decay and waning of virility which erode dreams of enduring youthful vigour.Lurking just below the conscious horizon,wishful thinking about rejuvenation regularly resurfaces whenever social conditions favour such indulgence.