"I will be running in 2024."
Posted on 11/21/2022 7:48:51 AM PST by bitt
The fountain of youth may be made of air, not water.
Scientists say they’ve successfully reversed the aging process of elderly people through “oxygen therapy” in a first-of-its-kind study.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University used hyperbaric oxygen chambers to target specific cells and DNA linked to shorter lifespans — and found the “Holy Grail” of staying young, according to a press release about the discovery.
During the study, researchers investigated whether the therapy — which involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized environment — could reverse the effects of aging in 35 people over age 64, according to the study, which was published Wednesday in the journal Aging.
They placed elderly participants in the chamber for 90 minutes a day, five days a week for three months and studied its impact on senescent cells, which are associated with tissue and organ deterioration. They also measured the length of each person’s telomere, a molecule linked to premature cellular aging.
Remarkably, scientists found that the participants’ telomeres had enlarged by an average length of 20 percent while their senescent cells decreased by up to 37 per cent by the end of the trial — the equivalent growing 25 years younger.
“The significant improvement of telomere length shown…provides the scientific community with a new foundation of understanding that aging can, indeed, be targeted and reversed at the basic cellular-biological level,” said the study’s co-author Shai Efrati. “Since telomere shortening is considered the ‘Holy Grail’ of the biology of aging.”
The scientists, which include doctors from the Shamir Medical Center, believe the pressurized chamber triggered brief oxygen shortages, which caused cell regeneration.
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Build yourself a greenhouse and park your bed in the middle of it.
lot of NHL players use the hyperbaric oxygen chambers to help their bodies recover
"I will be running in 2024."
Hyperbaric chamber sessions didn’t make Michael Jackson live longer…
He died of an excessive quantity of drugs to help him sleep I believe.
If oxygen is so good, I better quit taking the anti-oxidants they sold me last month. haha
Dear Natalie O:neill:
Ponce de Leon DID find the fountain of youth.
It’s located off Alt 19 in Pasco county.
The place is now called Wall’s Springs.
Every time you take a dip, your age decreases by 5 years.
Really.
Don’t tell anyone.
5.56mm
It apparently worked for Michael Jackson with two side effects; he changed from a black male adult into a young white girl.
LOL.
5.56mm
I’ve always said those pre-diluvial people you read about in the Bible living to 900+ years is NOT any kind of metaphor. It’s because the air was far more rich with oxygen before the sudden glacial meltdown. Ice core samples prove it. Another proof is the giant flora and fauna that lived in pre-diluvial times. They could get so big because the atmosphere was much more dense then. Gravity was the same, but the buoyancy of the air was much greater than today.
I’m already in my 2nd childhood mentally. Just need a body transplant.
So I swim 50 times and I’m a teenager again?
Kewl!!
Hmmm...
Why am I suddenly thinking about astronauts and the Apollo moon space craft?
As an undergrad at UC San Diego (at La Jolla) back in ‘85 I attended a seminar on aging I found very interesting/enlightening.
One presenter gave a summary of KNOWN long-lived individuals (including “old Tom Parr” and a French Count whose name I forget) and said, with best estimates at the time, the oldest average lifespan he could foresee for human beings was around 125 years.
In the silence following this comment some wag about mid-audience said out loud “Great, we’ll NEVER get rid of the department head.”
Raucous laughter ensued and moved around the room as the comment was repeated for those in the back and sides of the hall.
Indeed.
Right. Michael Jackson died of an overdose of propofol, which is a powerful surgical anesthetic. His ‘doctor’ gave it to him as a sleep aid.
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