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What if you could live forever?
We already have the technology to reverse the aging process, so if you want to live
a longer, healthier, life, what we are about to tell you will change everything...
There have been several research studies published recently with extraordinary findings.
Not only do certain technologies have the ability to slow the aging process, but some
can even reverse it altogether.
The interesting thing is that we have had this technology for a long time, and have
used it for medical procedures in the past.
The technology we are referring to are hyperbaric oxygen chambers.
If you are a scuba diver you’ve probably at least heard of this device, because they
are used to treat someone who ascends too quickly, and gets air bubbles in their blood.
The name given to this deadly circumstance is “the bends.”
This can be fatal if the bubbles make it to the brain and cause an aneurysm.
The hyperbaric oxygen chamber can be used to re-pressurize someone to remove the air
bubbles from the bloodstream, and allow for more oxygen to enter the body.
A recent research study conducted out of Tel Aviv University and the Shamir Medical Center
in Israel have found another use for hyperbaric oxygen treatments; reversing the aging process.
This study was conducted by Professor Shai Efrati and Dr. Amir Hadanny who used 35 healthy
individuals, aged 64 or over, for their experiment.
They used hyperbaric oxygen chambers to increase the pressure and amount of oxygen the patients
were receiving.
Each patient was given this treatment 60 times over a period of 90 days.
What they found has scientists around the world excited.
Most scientists believe that aging, and the physical changes that happen as you get older,
are a byproduct of damaged DNA.
DNA controls all of your traits, from what you look like to the amount of hormones you
produce, but DNA begins to degrade over time.
The older you get, the more damage accumulates in the DNA of your cells.
On a basic level this is what causes aging.
And if you are lucky enough to remain disease free, the reason your body will eventually
give up is because it can no longer create new cells to replace the old ones due to damaged
DNA.
Your body has natural ways of combating this process, which allows humans to often live
into their 70’s and beyond.
But death is inevitable, because eventually the DNA in your cells becomes so damaged that
other physical problems begin to arise such as diabetes, Alzheimer's, and organ failure.
However, what the research study conducted by Efrati and Hadanny showed was that the
DNA of their patients did not just stop degrading, but actually started to repair itself.
To understand what this means we need to understand what scientists believe are the two main causes
of aging.
The first has to do with telomeres.
These are sections of DNA on the ends of each of your chromosomes that act like a protective
helmet for your DNA.
This keeps the DNA from getting damaged each time the cell replicates.
However, each time your cells do divide part of the telomere is lost.
Once the telomere sections of your chromosomes are gone, the DNA begins to degrade.
This causes your cells to stop working properly and the symptoms of old age to begin.
The second thing your cells do that causes aging is to become senescent.
This is when cells stop dividing and remain dormant in the body.
This is a natural process, but these senescent cells can often cause problems for the healthy
cells around them, and have negative effects on the body itself.
Many scientists believe these senescent cells may play a role in certain conditions associated
with aging such as osteoarthritis and cancer.
So, how do we stop the aging process or reverse it?
We would have to find a way to regenerate the length of the telomeres on the chromosomes,
and we would need to destroy or remove senescent cells.
What the Tel Aviv University research team found after examining the cells of the patients
in their study was astonishing.
By using the hyperbaric oxygen chambers to increase the levels of oxygen in a person’s
body, cellular regeneration can occur.
This is not new to science as these devices have been used by medical professionals to
increase immune responses and speed up the healing process in the past.
However, what Efrati and Hadanny found was even more incredible.
They looked at the immune cells contained in each patient's blood who participated in
their experiment.
From these cells they could examine each person's DNA, and what they found was that in some
cases their telomere lengths had increased by up to 38%.
This is amazing because it could mean that the hyperbaric oxygen therapy did not just
slow the degradation of the telomeres in cells, but actually reversed it.
If further research can duplicate these results then we may have found a way to indefinitely
repair telomere length, and therefore, reverse one of the causes of aging.
But what about the senescent cells?
Was there any reduction in these harmful cells?
The answer is yes.
Surprisingly, the researchers found that there was a decrease of up to 37% in the number
of senescent cells in patients of the study.
This means that the second component of aging could also be dealt with by increasing the
oxygen flow through the body using hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
The increase in telomere length and decrease in senescent cells are two components needed
to stop aging and reverse its effects.
What is really important to consider is that if continued exposure to hyperbaric oxygen
therapy keeps increasing these beneficial effects on the body, we could theoretically
turn back someone’s biological clock and return their body to a younger state.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Now we are by no means saying everyone should immediately go out and get hyperbaric oxygen
therapy.
For one thing this was a single study with a small sample size.
Something to keep in mind with this, or any scientific study is that sample size, or the
amount of subjects in a study, is extremely important.
35 subjects is not a large number, which means there is a possibility that the results could
be wildly inaccurate.
The larger the sample size, and the more times an experiment is replicated, the better the
data is.
What we are saying is that something interesting most definitely happened in this study, and
it could unlock the door to overcoming death by old age in the future.
Another word of caution: hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be incredibly dangerous and should
only be conducted by medical experts at a medical facility.
What could happen if you built your own hyperbaric oxygen chamber you may ask?
Well the chamber could explode from the pressure being too high as one man found out.
He was rescued, but suffered from a collapsed lung.
A woman and her grandson were also killed in Florida when a faulty hyperbaric oxygen
chamber burst into flames.
And even though those are extreme cases, if the machine is not used properly, it is common
for people to experience hearing loss from ruptured eardrums, vision problems, and even
seizures.
So hyperbaric oxygen therapy should only be done by medical experts.
But hyperbaric oxygen therapy is not the only research being conducted around slowing or
reversing the aging process.
Scientists have been close to making breakthroughs on this frontier for years now, and it is
only a matter of time before they figure out how to extend human life.
One biotech CEO used an experimental gene therapy on herself.
Elizabeth Parrish underwent an anti-aging gene therapy developed by her company BioViva.
This was not FDA approved, or conducted using the scientific method, but she claims to have
extended her own telomeres and reversed the age of her immune cells by 20 years.
Her results are in question and there needs to be many more tests, but this brings up
a good point.
Science has come a long way in genetic modification, especially with the development of CRISPR,
which allows scientists to cut out any section of DNA they want and replace it with a different
gene.
This technology has the potential to allow humans to alter their DNA, and thereby control
what genes someone may, or may not, have in the future.
For example, a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui edited the DNA of twin girls who were
born in 2018.
He Jiankui claims that he disabled a gene called CCR5 in each of the twins while they
were still embryos in their mother’s uterus.
This gene codes for a protein that allows HIV to enter cells.
By editing the gene, He Jiankui may have created the first genetically modified babies to be
resistant to the virus that causes AIDS.
This was deemed unethical and the Chinese government arrested He Jiankui, but the fact
remains that we have the technology to modify our own genome, and that very technology may
allow humans to live forever.
In a different study researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles gave
nine volunteers a mix of three common drugs that affect growth hormones and diabetes.
On average they found that the immune cells in the volunteer’s bodies reversed their
age by about two and a half years.
This was surprising as they expected the cocktail of drugs to slow the signs of aging, but not
reverse them.
Again the researchers make it clear that more studies need to be done.
However, their study may suggest that the right combination of prescription drugs may
be able to extend the lifespan of humans.
Each of these examples shows that not only are we close to stopping the aging process
of our bodies, but we may be close to reversing that process altogether.
And one final experiment has many scientists excited for what the future holds.
Since DNA damage is responsible for most of the symptoms of aging, it stands to reason
that healthy DNA equals a healthy and long living person.
A recent study found that by giving plasma from young rats to older rats, the biological
age of the older rats was reversed.
This got scientists thinking and led to research around an enzyme called HDAC1.
Scientists found that this enzyme may play a key role in repairing age-related damage
to DNA.
It has been found that HDAC1 levels are much lower in people with Alzheimer's and older
adults in general.
Scientists began examining the different levels of HDAC1 in mice, and how lower levels correlated
to more damaged DNA.
They then injected a drug that would reactivate the production of the HDAC1 enzyme into the
older rats and the results were astonishing.
The rats given the reactivation drug reduced their biological age by 54%.
Imagine being able to take medicine that would restore your body to half of its current age.
If this could be done indefinitely, then old age would no longer be a concern for humans.
We are at a turning point for our species.
Science has made it possible to not only understand what causes aging in humans, but how this
process may be reversed.
It is very possible that within your lifetime humans will conquer the symptoms of old age
and even death itself.
However, this may lead to a whole new set of problems as population control would become
a real issue.
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