Imagine what it's like to live 10 meters underwater (about three stories high) for a long time.
Most ordinary people dive into deep water and will be becauseThe high water pressure causes headaches。But according to the Daily Star, Joseph Dituri, a 55-year-old American doctor, persevered in such an environment for 100 days. Before him, the worldNo decompressionThe longest record for underwater life is 73 days, 2 hours and 34 minutes, set by two American scientists at the bottom of the Jules Sea in 2014.
"I'm almost 10 years younger. ”Dituri claimed that in the high-pressure environment underwater, not only did he not feel a headache, but he felt that he had become more energetic, his metabolism had become faster, and he had even lost weight. What's going on?
01.Underwater life getting younger? Scientist: High pressure is key
As a biomedical engineer with 28 years of diving experience, Dituri modestly shows that the challenge of living underwater for 100 days is not to break a world record, but to study the effects of extreme stress on the body's markers of aging.
10 meters underwater,Barometric pressureApproximatelyIt is 1 of the land6 times"This pressure can crush bananas into puree!" Dituri described it vividly. During these 100 days, Dieturi did not use any technology to lower the water pressure, but asked the team members to continuously inject oxygen into his 9-square-meter hut in an attempt to create one"Undersea Oxygen Clinic".
According to the leading technology company focusing on anti-aging research in China - Ruijian Future (RLAB).This environment had a similar effect to him: It's like the "turbocharging" of the engine, which sends oxygen to the mitochondria of the cell "energy generator" through pressure, trying to solve the problem of insufficient energy in the body as we age.
Regarding hyperbaric oxygen chambers, the most famous is none other than the clinical trial conducted by Tel Aviv University in 2020. They found that after 35 middle-aged and elderly subjects underwent 60 oxygen inhalations over 90 days in an oxygen chamber at 2 atmospheres, the average telomeres were elongated by 20% (biologists believe that the longer the telomeres, the younger the biological age), and the number of aging cells decreased by 37%, which is equivalent to a reduction in biological age of about 25 years.
According to the researchers,The key to the hyperbaric oxygen chamber being able to slow down the rate of aging is high pressure。So, with the same high pressure, will Dituri produce the same results after 100 days of living underwater?
Life underwater is comparable to a "prison cell"?
At the end of the challenge, a team of professionals conducted a comprehensive physiological test on Dituri, and the data produced exceeded almost all the researchers' expectations. According to the report, Dituri can account for 60%-66% of the deep sleep time per night, which is nearly 41% higher than usual, and the inflammation index is reduced by nearly 50%. In addition,His cell telomere length ratio100 days agoThat's a 20% increaseIt is equivalent to a physiological reduction of 10 years
Dituri also said in an interview that he can get up at 5 a.m. every morning to exercise, work all day without feeling tired, and do not nap during the day. However, in his hut of only 9 square meters, although there are beds, toilets, coffee machines, etc., there is only no face-to-face communication with the outside world"It's a prison cell, andYou can't see sunlight at all
The wind from overseas soon blew to the country, but compared to the madness and boldness overseasChinese people seem to have chosen a more conservative and safe hyperbaric oxygen chamber。Taking the above-mentioned technology company "Ruijian Future" as an example, the search index shows that the number of visits to the company's official website has increased by 50 times in a month, and the popularity has not shown any downward trend.
A search of its company's official website found that it announced a model in October last year that was said to have an atmospheric pressure of 19. The hyperbaric oxygen chamber "Time Bead" is considered by some industry insiders to have reached the "civil ceiling" (the atmospheric pressure of the civil oxygen chamber shall not exceed 20）。According to public information, it has been operating safely in offline stores in Nanjing for more than 8 years.
Mr. Liu, the future head of Ruijian, revealed: "Recently, some people have left reservations through the company's official website, Jingdong Tmall and other channels, and specially went to our Shanghai headquarters to experience, and customers from the United Kingdom and France came to consult. ”
However, there are many users who complain"The consultation steps on the company's official website are too complicated and difficult to operate"."The appearance is a little ugly, it looks stupid", but there are also users who justify it "The body feels good, and the previous 1.."The feeling of 3 atmospheres is completely different."
Dituri at the bottom of the sea 1After living in an environment of 6 times the atmospheric pressure for 100 days, the biological age dropped by 10 years, and some netizens asked curiously, "In the future of Ruijian 1."How much younger can you get if you stay in an oxygen chamber at 9 atmospheres for 100 days? ”
The results are not known for the time being, but searching the message area of Ruijian's future Jingdong, there is no shortage of positive feedback such as "the number of nights has decreased", "the face has become ruddy", and "the mountain climbing is energetic". According to people familiar with the matter, Ruijian's future domestic hyperbaric oxygen chamber has been shipped to 13 major science and technology countries such as Australia, Britain and Germany, and most of the users are middle-aged high-net-worth men aged 35-65.
03.The mystery of anti-aging has been discovered, and humans are expected to live to be 110 years old?
While I miss the sun on the surface and my kids and partner, I love what I'm doing and living under the sea. ”
According to Dituri, this is not just satisfying his personal curiosity, nor is it simply an adventure, butIt is possible to find clues to solve the problem of aging in this process and help people better improve their quality of life
I'm not saying that this will lead to immortality, but at least we know that living under high water pressure, being able to extend telomere length, and also increase collagen, will provide valuable data for human life science research. He added.