Israeli scientists have successfully discovered a medical process that stops the biological ageing process and how to scientifically 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.
When one is placed on this medical process, adults’ blood cells actually grow younger as the treatments progress.
A person as old as 65 years once put on this medication, he or she could reverse the age by almost half to appear as if he is 30 and if he continues on that medication for at least 90 other days, the body stop
Some 35 adults over the age of 64 took part in the study and were given HBOT for 90 minutes a day, five times a week for three months, the body blood cells will not grow for a period twice the age he was before the reverse process began.
The research gives hope and opens the door for a lot of young scientists to target ageing as a reversible disease”.
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.
“Researchers around the world are trying to develop pharmacological and environmental interventions that enable telomere elongation. Our HBOT protocol was able to achieve this, proving that the ageing process can in fact be reversed at the basic cellular-molecular level.” said Shai Efrati, a professor at Tel Aviv University who runs the Aviv Clinics in Florida.
Prof. 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.
“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.
