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Telomeres and Time: Rewind Aging
🧬 Telomeres and Time: Can We Really Rewind Aging?
The Lowest Hemoglobin I’ve Ever Seen
The lowest hemoglobin I’ve ever seen belonged to a young woman who was still standing. Her blood count was one-fourth of normal. She was pale, short of breath, and strong enough to walk into the clinic.
Doctors soon learned her bone marrow had stopped making new blood cells. The diagnosis was aplastic anemia — a true telomere disease.
She survived thanks to her fitness, modern science, and a bone marrow transplant from a generous donor in Germany. Two years later, she’s in law school, healthy, and full of…
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