The body doesn't have the courtesy to break down all at once, it goes down the drain system by system. This gives us the opportunity to deal with it and repair each breakdown as it happens or, better yet, prevent it before it happens. After accounting for the ill effects of a poor diet and lack of exercise, the manner in which the body deteriorates can be traced to the failure of the endocrine and exocrine glands. Hormones are the language the body speaks between its various parts, letting the various organs know if they need to speed up or slow down, make more of this or less of that. It is an exquisite biochemical symphony.
Blood circulates throughout the body in sixty seconds.
Therefore, it takes approximately sixty seconds for a hormone to reach any other part of the body. It serves to regulate the other endocrine glands. As we age, and the endocrine glands decrease their function, the pituitary begins to whip them like tired horses. This contributes to the development of a state of exhaustion. What causes this gradual decline in the endocrine glands probably is the effect of free radical pathology.