“…It's preserving the organism at the expense of losing its functional tissue such as muscle, replacing it with fat. And exactly the same processes are involved. Intense calcification will cut off an area, turn it to stone. And the process of aging is very, very slow turning to stone. It involves calcification but in a diffuse way that increases inflammation as it lowers function. But the whole organism goes down more or less in a coordinated way rather than calcifying your ears or your pituitary or some particular tissue.”