Many of us are cautious about what we eat, how much we sleep, and our overall well-being in hopes that we can live a long and healthy life. In other words, many of us are desperate to find ways to prolong aging but what actually causes humans to grow old? There are multiple theories explaining the aging process including that of the depletion of telomeres. For those who are unaware of what telomeres are, imagine caps at the end of your chromosomes providing protection (Figure 1). When Mitosis, a type of cell divisions that results in two identical daughter cells, occurs, our DNA strands…