Updated 3 years ago
Reversing the aging process gets real
By Scott Olster, Editor at LinkedIn NewsUpdated 3 years ago
Perhaps the Fountain of Youth isn’t a body of water after all? Maybe it's a hyperbaric chamber. Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Shamir Medical Center in Israel found that high-pressure oxygen therapy in hyperbaric chambers can halt and even reverse the shortening of telomeres, caps on the ends of chromosomes that are key to the aging process. As we get older, telomeres shorten until the cells themselves die. High-pressure oxygen therapy lengthened participants’ telomeres, reversing aging at the cellular level. The findings may lead to treatments that improve our ability to pay attention and process information as we age.
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