"Eating too much and injuring people, starving and curing all diseases" is the wisdom of the early Ming Dynasty medical scientists, "breaking the valley" is the most basic practice method of Taoism, and "not eating after noon" is the precept followed by the Buddhists. In fact, this series of ancient health care methods show its scientific nature in modern society.
Recently, a video of a speech by Liu Ying, a professor of life sciences at Peking University, was on the hot search list. In her speech, she excitedly revealed the team's latest research results: eating less can delay aging, and hunger can rewrite genes!
According to media reports, the study made a major breakthrough at the beginning of this year. Professor Liu Ying introduced that the team has long studied the relationship between the diet and lifespan of nematodes. To block their feeding, the team interfered with the elegus-2 gene with special chemical reagents to control the starvation status of the control group.
In the end, multiple sets of data confirmed that the life of nematodes that have been in a "half-hungry" state for a long time has been extended by nearly 2 times! This type of nematode, which has a very similar aging process to humans, eventually came to the scientific conclusion that "eating less can prolong life".
The development of science and technology is refreshing people's understanding of aging, and for the geeks of life with the vision of "immortality", this research result undoubtedly provides new ideas and practical possibilities.
In fact, many domestic and foreign scientific research teams have been deeply engaged in the field of anti-aging for a long time and have achieved fruitful results. The first focus on this area was a cutting-edge study published in the authoritative magazine Cell in 2018: through the study of the diet of 1,000 centenarians in Okinawa, Japan, it was found that these long-lived elderly people have a commonality: the total daily calorie intake is 20%-40% lower than other regions, and the "secret" to reducing the risk of chronic diseases is gradually emerging.
Since then, "calorie restriction" has attracted much attention. In 2019, the international top journal "Nature" published the research results of "aging key" ahead of time, and incorporated anti-aging technologies such as "calorie restriction" into one of the most reliable strategies to increase survival time or life expectancy in a century, which attracted a lot of attention for a while.
Leaving aside this series of exciting scientific research results and returning to real life, who can give up the enjoyment of the taste buds of eating and drinking spicy? In fact, the far-sighted rich have long since disobeyed the argument that "there is a road from the ancient Huashan Mountains" and have opened up new secret passages to the "Garden of Life Eden".
Hong Kong media reported that Li Ka-shing, the richest man in China, has always held the obsession of "living to 120 years old", and in 2018, Li Chaoren announced that he would invest 25 million US dollars in the life track, thus taking the lead in secretly contacting similar "Yuan Zhijin" anti-aging life technology. It is reported that this technology has long been popular in the Western aristocratic circles, how can Li Chaoren be willing to fall behind?
Coincidentally, this life technology also attracted the "ambitious" Musk mother, the 74-year-old Meyer. According to foreign media reports, Meyer publicly expressed her covetousness for the goal of "living to 98 years old" and quite agreed with li Chaoren's life technology that he threw into a lot of money. It is understood that in order to get a pass to the "feast of life", Meyer spends as much as one million dollars a year on this item alone. Obviously, she enjoys it tirelessly, and her figure and appearance continue to be online, and she is still active on major shows in recent years.
In the eyes of ordinary netizens, this is just a game exclusive to the rich who "have a lot of stupid money", but this is not the case. Nine years ago, a team led by Dr. Dirgit Gill, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, confirmed that similar life technologies can enable mammals to reverse the aging process and expand the length of mammals' lives by 1/3. In the following years, the relevant research results were repeatedly published in top journals such as Nature and Cell, confirming that this technology can maintain cell vitality and make bones, skin, muscles, etc. more "young" from a biological point of view.
Needless to say, it is tantamount to providing an optimal option for the wealthy and nobles who do not want to violate the "food color". Following in the footsteps of Li Ka-shing and Meyer, more and more geeks of life have become "early adopters". According to incomplete statistics, only on the domestic Beijing/East platform, Li Ka-shing's favored life technology similar to "Yuanzhijin" has become a popular choice for high-net-worth groups, with a voice volume of more than 200,000.
Compared with the anti-aging life technology of the fire in recent years, "heat restriction" can be described as out of the circle for a long time. In the 1930s, McCay, as the "originator" of the American life scientist, has tried to conduct life experiments to observe changes in lifespan by reducing the calorie intake of rats. As a result, the "half-starved" rats that retained only 60% of the calories had a significant decrease in the aging rate and a lifespan of 30% more than the conventional data!
Recently, the latest achievements of Liu Ying's team at Peking University are undoubtedly another proof of "eating less and prolonging life". Although the ancient proverb of "eating 7 minutes is full" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, few people are willing to give up the "feast of food".
Professor Anglo Linda of the London Business School once predicted: "The era of everyone's 100 years is coming." "It is undeniable that the various life technologies mentioned in the article will be catalysts for accelerating the era of longevity. Faced with a longer time trajectory, human beings may need to redivide the stages of life.