American scientist Elizabeth: 90-day meditation stretches telomere length by 30%, or makes people 20 years younger

Speaking of “meditation”, some people may not know what it is, but it is actually similar to sitting meditation. It is said that India is its birthplace. In the process of meditation, people can realize the “unity of mind” and reach another “world”, which is like the current computer suddenly establishing a connection with a strange and huge database.

Of course, most people will feel inexplicable about this statement, but after research by scientists, it seems that its role in recuperating the body and mind seems to be very important, and people gradually tend to be dubious, and there are even many people rushing to try it. On top of that, scientists have a new takeaway—meditation even helps life itself.

1. Dr. Elizabeth: 90 days of meditation or “20 years younger”

Dr. Elizabeth from the University of California in the United States, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology for her research on telomeres earlier, believes that the length of telomeres is related to biological age, and the shorter the telomere, the older the physiology. This time, she brought the discovery of “Meditation 90 days, 20 years younger”, which attracted widespread attention in the scientific research community.

In an earlier experiment, Elizabeth spent four years looking for blood samples from 58 mothers and found that the more stressed they were, the shorter the telomere length and the lower the telomerase level. Not only that, but between the two women with very different stress levels, their telomere lengths were significantly different, and there was a 10-year gap in their biological age.

Under the premise of this experiment, Elizabeth formally studied the means of telomere extension. Once found, it is possible to realize the “time rewind” in science fiction. She and her team then found 239 women to participate in the experiment, ranging in age from about 40 to 70 years old, and with basically similar living habits. Elizabeth took them to the Shambhala Mountains, and then conducted a 90-day meditation, the results of which were published in the well-known journal “Oxid Med Cell Longev”.

During this process, the subjects were not in contact with the outside world and needed to meditate for 2 hours a day for 90 days. It was found that 83% of subjects with telomere stretched nearly a third (about 30%) had better oxidative stress responses and a younger biological age (20 age). Although the number of people in this experiment was not large, and the 90-day period was not too long, Elizabeth still believed that the experiment was a success, indicating that meditation is indeed helpful for a young and healthy body.

2. Meditation may work, but what should I be thinking about?

Although Elizabeth’s experiment is well-founded, many people express their disbelief. For example, for most people who work every day, even if meditation works, they don’t have time to think, let alone what to think about. There are also many people who said that they could not calm down at all, let alone persist for 2 hours; or they simply fell asleep while thinking about it. So does meditation like this make sense? There has been speculation about other possible ways to extend telomeres instead of meditation.

So is there such speculation? A discovery at Baylor College of Medicine quickly caught the eye. Hisayuki Amano’s team found that telomere length can be stretched by an endogenous coenzyme, and it also helps with survival. Although slightly more “ordinary” than meditation, cell-based research is also more scientific.

Soon, “WLife” supplements using this endogenous product as the core mechanism component became popular in the rich circle of North America, and many wealthy businessmen took the lead in obtaining them through their own channels before they walked out of the laboratory. It is understood that Mr. Li once spent more than 1.5 million yuan a year in contact with similar substances, and publicly shouted that he had the feeling of “giving birth after the age of 20”.

After several years of development, related technologies have been iteratively updated after the “WLife” category has been quantified by Wright-Weijian, which has prompted its cost to drop several times. Based on the data of “WLife” and other platforms, it was found that the cost of use once fell below 1,000. Yuan. Then, with the in-depth research of Guangti and Qingbei, their positive mechanisms for the human body have been continuously refined and verified, and related substances have been known to more people, especially in high-net-worth circles in first- and second-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

“It is always a natural phenomenon. Although it cannot be avoided, it can be postponed and alleviated.” This is the view of Professor David from Harvard Lab who first discovered the “WLife” analog, and this view was subsequently adopted by the University of Washington and Keio University. the response to. If this idea becomes mainstream, scientists’ seemingly implausible discoveries can also be explained.

3. After the successful extension of telomeres, it may not be difficult to be 120 years old

At present, there are many opinions in the scientific community on the “threshold” of human age. They infer different age expectations based on different calculations, but they refer to “120 years old” more. That is to say, according to scientific expectations, the age of 120 is the goal that ordinary people can strive for. If the telomere length can be successfully extended enough to support the loss of so many years, then this goal may not seem difficult.

The life science track is becoming more and more crowded now. In addition to Elizabeth’s “meditation”, Israeli scientists also discovered the principle of “high pressure pure oxygen inhalation”: a 65-year-old man insisted on high pressure oxygen inhalation for 3 months, the length of telomeres It was extended by a fifth, with concomitant removal of old cells. Based on this principle, the domestic hyperbaric oxygen chamber O2ark has also landed in Shanghai and is expected to be further popularized in the future.

Today is the era of technological blowout, and our knowledge is refreshed every day. Although some scientists’ assumptions are still too “advanced”, there is reason to believe that some ideas can become reality for the changes we can already perceive.