Hyperbaric Oxygen May Lengthen Telomeres And Your Life

Hyperbaric Oxygen May Lengthen Telomeres And Your Life

A potential breakthrough may be happening in the field of anti-aging. Could pure oxygen lead to the fountain of youth?

Dr. Ed Park, author of The Telomere Miracle, explains aging and stem cells could possibly be affected by oxygen treatments.

“Every time a cell divides the telomeres have to shorten, and stem cells are the kinds of cells that have an enzyme that can re-lengthen them, making them kind of immortal. Even though they’re getting older, they’re getting older at a much slower rate than the non-stem cells,” Dr. Park said.

“What we do see is an incidental shortening of the telomeres and that reflects where they came from because their stem cells are getting older. So, if we can have something like breathing hyperbaric oxygen and it shows up in the blood cells at least, the inference, the hope is that it would show up in other cells,” he said.

A recent study out of Tel Aviv University published in the journal Aging, claims promising results using hyperbaric oxygen treatments to lengthen telomeres and reduce the accumulation of old and malfunctioning cells in the blood of test subjects. In the study, 35 healthy adults aged 64 and older received 60 daily hyperbaric oxygen treatments over three months.

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Study Finds Optimists Live Longer Lives

Study Finds Optimists Live Longer Lives

New studies show that optimism is linked to living longer and those who feel younger rehabilitate from injury faster.

Health research has always been overwhelmingly focused on risk factors that may predispose people to disease and premature death. The ever-growing field of positive psychology, however, is focused on those positive attributes and behaviors which can, on their own, promote health and longevity.

One such recent study, by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, looked at the trait of optimism, as experienced by a group of women ages 50-79, over the course of several decades.

The study was unique in that it studied a large cohort of people across a variety of racial and ethnic groups to understand whether optimism is affected by such social structures.

At the completion of this multi-year study, findings showed that the 25% of participants who displayed the most optimism were likely to have a 5.4% longer lifespan and a 10% greater likelihood of living beyond 90 years than those who were the least optimistic.

These results were found to have no correlation with race or ethnicity, and researchers found that lifestyle factors such as regular exercise and healthy eating, accounted for less than a quarter of the optimism lifespan association.

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