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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My conception was that as man got farther away from the Fall of our first parents, who were immortal as created, the life span gradually decreased. Tolkien had a similar concept with the Numenoreans, who were the offspring of mortal man and immortal elves/Maia. They descended from the son who chose mortality, whereas Elrond elected immortality with the elves. The kings of Numenor had lifespans of hundreds of years but eventually dwindled to our current state. (Taking off my geek hat now)
Who are those lucky 35 people? Why only 35 people out of 110 million over 64?
Didn’t work for Michael Jackson...
White, Grissom, and Chaffee...
Damn, the secret got out.
Oh, and you can have only one dip per day.
Park rangers keep close tabs.
5.56mm
The process will reverse aging but give you cancer, HIV, syphillis, the Heebee Jeebes and cooties.
More on hyperbaric chambers. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4103914/posts
Think if a compression valve goes bad and what happens to your ear drums.
I seem to remember Michael Jackson was said to do this, decades ago.
That’s fine, I haven’t told anyone your secret is safe with me
Hyperbaric can’t keep you from dying of too much propopol.
Why only 35 people out of 110 million over 64?
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Not many people volunteer to be lab rats.
Has H. Clinton been getting this Oxygen treatment for years?
Hillary Clinton was rushed away from the 9/11 memorial service in New York as she was feeling unwell.
A video shows the Democrat stumbling and being carried into a van, with aides and security guards on either side.
As she is being helped towards the vehicle, she appears to sink towards the ground, and her team gather closely around her to help her back up.
Her campaign said in a statement that Ms Clinton became “overheated” and left the service early.
Shortly afterwards Ms Clinton emerged from her daughter Chelsea’s apartment in Manhattan. A little girl approached her and she was filmed hugging the girl, before smiling and waving to reporters as she walked away.
The news comes shortly after right-wing commentators including Donald Trump accused her of being unfit to be president.
Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, who advises Mr Trump, recently questioned the candidate’s health, pointing out her “blinking” and exaggerated head movements as she spoke to reporters.
Sign me up.
Don’t put hope in things like this. God is in charge. Because of sin we have all received the death sentence in this fallen world. There is, however, eternal life for those who admit their sin and their need of a savior.
Psalm 90:10 “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”
“Great, we’ll NEVER get rid of the department head.”
That might prove to be more of a problem then people realize.
I remember stories about how university physics departments couldn’t accept quantum physics until a generation of entrenched individuals had passed on.
Will Medicare pay for this treatment?
Or just get some exercise.
There’s a thought. :-)
A control group selected specifically to determine if we will still need them and feed them.
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