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Primary and Secondary Aging

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Primary aging is biological change from molecular and cellular processes; secondary aging is change caused by controllable factors such as diet and exercise.

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Thinning skin and graying hair are primary; a decline driven mainly by inactivity is secondary and can be slowed.

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The two interact, and observed decline in a given person is rarely purely one or the other.