Meditation originated in India, and legend has it that it can concentrate one's divergent consciousness and make contact with a supernatural being called "Atman." According to modern terms, it is roughly equivalent to each computer connected to the terminal database in the computer room.
This approach was initially scorned by Westerners as nonsense. However, in recent years, with the in-depth study of science, more and more people have realized that meditation does have unique features and can adjust physical and mental health. American scientists have recently discovered that meditation can also bring people back to youth.
01 Nobel Prize for Scientists: 90 days of meditation, 20 years younger
The discovery came from Nobel laureate Dr. Elizabeth. Her team at the University of California, which selected 239 female volunteers between the ages of 40 and 70 with close lifestyle habits, traveled to the remote Shambhala Mountains in Colorado to conduct a three-month meditation experiment in isolation from the outside world, published in the journal OXID MED CELL LONGEV.
The task given to the volunteers by the research team was simple: to meditate for 2 hours a day. After 3 months, the research team examined their physical condition. The results showed that before the experiment, 83% of the volunteers had 30% elongated telomeres and reduced oxidative stress, which was equivalent to a 20-year regression of physiological age.
Lead Dr Elizabeth said: "Despite the limited samples and time, it at least proves that meditation has a positive effect on physical rejuvenation. It is worth mentioning that this Doctor won the Nobel Prize for his outstanding contributions to telomeres. Her previous research has shown that "the greater the mental stress, the shorter the telomeres", and now this new finding demonstrates the link between mental relaxation and cellular telomeres and longevity.
02 Meditation may be useful, but I can't calm down
After Dr. Elizabeth's dissertation was published, it caused a heated discussion on the Internet. Some 996 office workers jokingly said: "Meditation makes people young, but unfortunately I can't calm down." "It has also been suggested that in order to make the telomeres of cells longer, it may not necessarily be necessary to use the form of meditation.
Soon after, The Macbel Medical School confirmed the hypothesis. Its Hisayuki Amano team found that β-niacinamide molecules can also maintain telomere length and elongate survival, and the paper was published in the sub-journal Cell. Although it doesn't sound as obvious as the effects of meditation, for busy modern people, eat
Perhaps for this reason, the "Palovir PRO" anti-aging supplement, which is the main substance of this molecule, is all the rage in the business circle. The old and frail rich people seem to see the "life-saving straw" and do not hesitate to pay a lot of money. Li Ka-shing reportedly spent 1.56 million yuan on the same supplement in 2017 and claimed to be "like becoming a child after the age of 20".
In recent years, due to the iteration of technological updates, its cost has been reduced by 90%, and the sky-high supplement that was once exclusive to the rich has also sunk to the middle class. Searching for the "Palovir PRO" molecular agent on Beijing and cats, it can be found that its price is less than 1,000 yuan / bottle. In addition, top institutions such as the Tsinghua-Peking University Life Science Research Center and the University of Washington have published articles claiming that β-niacinamide molecules can enhance muscle strength and insulin resistance in the elderly. Under various factors, its audience has gradually increased, and the repurchase rate has reached 80%.
"Aging may also be just a disease," MIT Technology Review proposed a few years ago. If we can accept this view, then we may no longer be surprised by the endless stream of life-prolonging substances.
03 Humans may be able to break the 120-year-old mark
Biology believes that due to the limitation of telomere length, human cells can divide roughly 50 times in a lifetime, with an interval of 2.4 years each time, which means that humans have an upper limit of 120-year lifespan. And if telomeres can be elongated, perhaps this limitation will no longer exist.
To achieve this goal, in addition to meditation-related experiments, scientists have also conducted human experiments on hyperbaric oxygen. After inhaling high-pressure pure oxygen for 3 months, 34 65-year-old people had their telomeres elongated by 20% and senescent cells were cleared by 37%. The hyperbaric oxygen chamber O2 ARK based on this experiment is comparable to the "Palovir PRO" supplement, but is currently only popular among the wealthier population due to its high price of hundreds of thousands to millions.
A Brief History of the Future argues that as plagues, famines, and wars that have long threatened humanity are conquered, humanity will face new to-do issues: immortality, happiness, and becoming an upgraded human being with "divinity."