[Verse 1]
Telomeres grow shorter with each cellular divide,
Senescence accumulates — old cells refuse to hide,
They linger in the tissue, secreting cytokines,
Inflammaging spreading through the body's old machines,
Oxidative radicals attacking mitochondria,
The engine sputters slowly — welcome to the criteria,
Of biological aging, written in each strand,
A molecular manuscript no surgeon ever planned
[Chorus]
Стареем постепенно, клетка за клеткой,
Telomeres and free radicals, aging is complex,
Inflammaging, senescence — запомни навсегда,
The body keeps the record in its very DNA
[Verse 2]
Presbycusis steals the high-frequency terrain,
The consonants blur softly — S and F become a strain,
Presbyopia flattens every aging crystalline lens,
Cataracts cloud vision and macular degeneration bends,
The central field to shadow — and the client turns away,
Not from rudeness, from the scramble of a sensory decay,
Loss of smell and taste can hollow appetite and mood,
Vestibular decline tips balance — isolation brewed
[Chorus]
Стареем постепенно, клетка за клеткой,
Telomeres and free radicals, aging is complex,
Inflammaging, senescence — запомни навсегда,
The body keeps the record in its very DNA
[Verse 3]
Sleep architecture fractures as the slow-wave stages thin,
REM behavior disorder — acting nightmares from within,
Circadian advance pulls waking earlier each dawn,
Apnea fragments oxygen before the night is gone,
The therapist who listens must distinguish grief from sleep,
Depression mimics insomnia, the patterns run so deep,
Ask about the nights before you analyze the days,
The architecture matters in diagnostic ways
[Bridge]
Сарcopenia wastes the muscle, frailty takes the floor,
Falls become the threshold — between living and much more,
Pain is not a given that the elderly must bear,
Undertreated suffering is a clinical affair,
Теперь запомни это: pharmacokinetics shift,
Renal clearance slowing means the drug levels drift,
Polypharmacy compounds it — seven pills or more,
Distribution, absorption — nothing's like before,
Volume changes, albumin drops, half-lives extend,
What a younger body clears, an older one will tend to hold
[Chorus]
Стареем постепенно, клетка за клеткой,
Telomeres and free radicals, aging is complex,
Inflammaging, senescence — запомни навсегда,
The body keeps the record in its very DNA
[Outro]
The clinician who understands the body's aging score
Can meet the older client where biology opens the door,
Not pathology — a process, layered, intricate, profound,
Стареем — but in knowing that, the better care is found