How to extend the life?This questionalways bespokoysya. Search medicine of old age has involved the shamans, priests, and alchemists. Over time, this was entirely on the shoulders of the scientific and medical community. Tell about three interesting theories on the basis of which, possibly, will create the long-awaited elixir of youth.
Low calorie diet the key to longevity
To date, the academic community put forward several theories explaining the possible causes and factors of increasing life expectancy. The most reasonable is the idea of life extension through calorie diets. On this subject already conducted a lot of experiments on flies-fruit flies and mice and rats. Animal studies show that fasting and cutting calories daily diet can increase life expectancy by 30%, which is a lot.
The composition of the intestinal microbiota of centenarians differs from that of the elderly. It is diverse and closer to the composition of the omnivorous inhabitants of the Hadza tribe in Tanzania. Therefore, the germs of centenarians have a secret.
Such research is now conducted on humans. About a hundred volunteers agreed to cut your diet by 30%. Surveillance is already a few years, and conclusions can be done after 10-15 years. However, now all participants of the experiment noted that when cutting back caloric diet, they began to feel better, and the energy appeared, oddly, much more.
In addition, gut microbes digest for a good part of nutrients, they also synthesize many useful compounds such as vitamins and butyrate. The latter is studied agent that prolongs life by inhibiting deacetylase histones.
There are more facts and evidence that the intestinal microflora is critical in maintaining health and longevity. Drugs aimed at the normalization of the microflora may be considered as one component of a lifestyle (or treatment) necessary for any human being to live as long as possible.