A Unifying Hypothesis of Chronic Disease and Aging

The Doctor Weighs In
6 min readNov 1, 2018

By William H. Bestermann, Jr., MD

Accelerated aging and disease in the skin are largely driven by excess oxidative particles generated by sun exposure and other environmental factors.

Look around. You can see differences in the rate of aging everywhere. Some 50-year-old people look 80 and some 80-year-old people look 50. It’s just the way they look…

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