Posted on 02/25/2025 9:18:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A cure for ageing sounds like something right out of a wild science-fiction film like The Substance.
But scientists could now be close to making this a reality.
Researchers from Osaka University, Japan claim to have found a cellular 'master switch' which can reverse the process of ageing.
This protein, called AP2A1, could be the key to future treatments that will turn back the body's biological clock and undo the damage caused by old age.
As our bodies get older, we build up a growing number of old or 'senescent' cells which stop dividing and functioning as they should.
These 'zombie cells' don't die but rather continue to grow and pump out inflammatory chemicals which contribute to age-related diseases.
However, the researchers found that they could turn senescent cells back into young, healthy cells simply by reducing the amount of the protein AP2A1.
In theory, that means scientists could remove the cause of age-related diseases like Alzheimer's or arthritis by reversing the process of senescence at the cellular level.
The body's ageing process is incredibly complex and there is no single factor responsible for why we get old.
However, cell senescence is one process which appears to play a significant role in bringing on the negative consequences of getting older.
Professor Richard Faragher, an expert on cell ageing from the University of Brighton who was not involved in the study, says: 'Normal cells monitor the number of times they have been called on to divide as a cancer prevention mechanism.
'So, after a variable number of divisions, these cells become senescent which means they activate pathways to ensure they will not divide again.'
Senescent cells also 'radically change the way in which they behave' and start to produce inflammatory molecules and enzymes which degrade the surrounding tissue.
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finally. How do I turn on my switch?
Mas tequila
Playing with that switch, I hear will make ya go blind.
Great news. Some exciting advances happening in medicine lately. Saw a segment on gretas show shere a doc was discussing kidnet cancer and a new victim specific designer medicine can be createc now which seeks,out, t a rgets and cetros the cancer cells only- the method has been around ashile, but tneyve i prkved it tremendously in the last fes years, and in a small study of 9 patients, all nine are cancer free now after surgery and the meds which mopped up the remaining cells.
Few years zway of course, but they are very encouraged by it.
Speaking of aging is it not incredible how George Soros looks like the evil emperor in Star Wars?
In all seriousness the evil Emperor was just a character in a movie. George Soros is an evil man in reality. Megalomania if in power always does much evil. Carl Marx and Engels were not megalomaniacs but were the fathers of Marxism. Their ideals were twisted into tyranny as their ideals were totally impossible in human society and will never be nor work. Their philosophy though noble always result in tyranny, death and war. Just as Cambodia. If you do not what happened in Cambodia you have malignant stupidly.
LOL
You gotta reach real deep...and a little to the right...but use a flashlight cause it’s hard to find... :)
But it’s okay up until you only need glasses.
For how long will the effects of aging be reversed?
How many times can this be done on the body with the same level of effect, or does s tolerance develop over repeated uses of this method?
I don’t know that this is a good thing. Picture an immortal George Soros.
bkmk
AI is going to speed the advances tremendously. Maybe even going from cells directly to humans in a few years before mice get their senescent proteins removed.
I feel like I read about the new key to forever youth every 5 years.
Turn on, tune in....wasn’t that a Timothy Leary slogan? Not really suggesting illegal drugs.... Maybe go dancing instead.
No thanks. I’ve already lived longer than anyone in my immediate family. My only goal is to not outlive my two sons.
Yep ai will help remendously, especially where meds need to be fine tuned to specific cancers which need special developments based on a person’s unique DNA. The bad thin about ai thouhg was when the investors that pres Trump introduced , the multi billionairs he brought up on stage with him, they giddily said that they were excited about how hey are gonna be able to create new mRNA’s in just days and xpeed them to market, for, you know, “for the good of mankind” ax they said- the one fella especially a ent on about it, and it was truly creepy how he described it.
Ai is gonna be a great thing, but also a dangerous thing in the wrongmhands, and frankly those 3 folks up on stage described some really disturbing things about heir plans for use of the ai and the coming “super ai” that the Japanese fella spoke about.
Hey coach! Put me in!
I’ll get to re-celebrate 92 birthdays...
Ai is gonna be a great thing, but also a dangerous thing in the wrongmhands, and frankly those 3 folks up on stage described some really disturbing things about heir plans for use of the ai and the coming “super ai” that the Japanese fella spoke about
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