‘Backward in time’: Israeli scientists claim to reverse ageing using pure oxygen

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Israeli scientists say they have managed to not only successfully stop the biological ageing process but to reverse it, using only oxygen.

The study, a collaboration between Tel Aviv University and the Shamir Medical Center, administered high-pressure oxygen in a pressurised chamber and said it reversed two processes relating to ageing and illness.

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Using hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT) on ageing healthy adults, the researchers found the shortening of telomeres (chromosome ends) and the accumulation of old and malfunctioning cells in the body could be reversed.

That is, the adults' blood cells actually grow younger as the treatments progress.

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The study, Efrati said, "gives hope and opens the door for a lot of young scientists to target ageing as a reversible disease".

His partner at the Shamir Medical Center, Chief Medical Research Officer Amir Hadanny, said interventions such as lifestyle modifications and intense exercise have shown "some inhibiting effect on telomere shortening", but the hyperbaric oxygen treatment is more effective.

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"In our study, only three months of HBOT were able to elongate telomeres at rates far beyond any currently available interventions or lifestyle modifications," Hadanny said.

According to the study, the physical changes were equivalent to how the participants' bodies were at the cellular level 25 years earlier.

"We are not [just] slowing the decline – we are going backwards in time," Efrati said.

Oxygen treatment improved attention, information processing speed, and executive functions in the subjects, the researchers said.

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‘Backward in time’: Israeli scientists claim to reverse ageing

Administering pure oxygen in a pressurised chamber could reverse ageing and illnesses, research finds.

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Tel Aviv University study finds hyperbaric oxygen treatments reverse aging process

A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Shamir Medical Center in Israel indicates that hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT) in healthy aging adults can stop the aging of blood cells and reverse the aging process. In the biological sense, the adults' blood cells actually grow younger as...

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[pulsemyne]

Micheal Jackson was right!

 

[T0M]

sounds pretty poggers

 

[LifeLine]

brb buying some oxygen tanks

 

[Quample]

Man, currently young-ish rich people are gonna all live until they're like 150, aren't they.

 

[Brotherhood93]

Regardless of whether this has any truth or value to it, I wonder what would happen if we discovered a way to cheaply and easily prolong our lives indefinitely. On the face of it, it would be completely unsustainable but how do you tell people they have to die when it can be so easily prevented?

 

[Golding]

Why is this not more widely reported ?

 

[Creepy Woody]

Israeli scientists say they have managed to not only successfully stop the biological ageing process but to reverse it

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Yep, can I start over from being a baby again? I'm going to Groundhog-Day-it and do everything perfect this time.

 

[Imperfected]

I sleep in an oxygen tent because I believe it gives me sexual powers.

However, it should be noted this news was already posted.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

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