A New Way of Thinking on Delaying Senescence Depending on Kidney
Aging is an irreversible process in the development of life,but anti-aging is feasible.Senescence resulted from deficiency in kidney is considered as the essence of the theory of TCM on aging.While in the modern medicine,theories related to kidney are also mentioned,such as free radical theory,neuroendocrine immune theory,and etc.However,the mechanism of aging is still not clear,so it is impossible to delay senescence.In this paper,the relationship between kidney Yin and kidney Yang deficiency and aging was put forward by studying theory of TCM and modern medicine the aging,and aging can be prevented through the way of nourishing kidney-yin,warming kidney-yang and tonifying both Yin and Yang.