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The most common mechanism for confronting entropy is the flow of energy from the outside, which is carried out for all living organisms through the processes of nutrition and respiration – metabolism. These processes cannot be perfect, therefore inevitably there should be “production waste” – unworkable ballast molecules and harmful toxic substances, the removal of which from the body in principle cannot be 100% ideal process, as a result of which “pollution” inevitably accumulates in the body.

Harmful elements contained in food, in inhaled air, in information flows (exotoxins) also contribute to this process.

The result is age-accumulated pollution, by which it is generally necessary to understand the interfering, non-functional and toxic elements of different nature.

Examples of this mechanism can serve in the general case: toxins and heavy metals associated with tissues; scars from old wounds and inflammatory processes; chronic infections; cholesterol plaques on vessels; not functioning protein complexes in cells, lipofuscin in nerve cells, osteochondrosis phenomena; effects of mental injury, etc.

The change with age of the flow of matter and energy through the organisms can be estimated from the level of metabolism. It is known that basal metabolism decreases with the age of about 10%.

Apparently, this mechanism is not leading, it is possible, however, that it can make a significant contribution in the later stages of life.

This is known, for example, for beetles – the accumulation of “contaminations” in the yellow body is critical for them at the end of life.

In humans, it is known to use enterosorbents in order to counteract this mechanism, which leads to an increase in real life expectancy of 5—7 years. Apparently, this is the real contribution of this mechanism to human aging.

Most importantly, the use of agents that oppose this mechanism seems to be for nerve cells, which in old age turn out to be filled with lymphuscin up to 70% of their volume. Centrofenoxin, which reduces its quantity, at the same time has a pronounced psychostimulating effect.