Multiple Choice
While obtaining a health history from a 68-year-old patient, the nurse learns that the patient takes daily supplements of antioxidants beta carotene, selenium, and vitamin E. The nurse recognizes that the use of these substances in slowing the aging process is related to the biologic aging theory of
A) telomere-telomerase decrease.
B) free radicals.
C) somatic mutation.
D) programmed cell death.
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