Walking fast can prolong life by 16 years? British research team: It's true! Brisk walking lengthens telomeres
As the saying goes, "to live a long life, walk more" and "walk after a meal, you can live ninety-nine years." Interestingly, this longevity method that has been passed down from ancient times to the present has gradually discovered the scientific rationality behind it. A research team from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom has confirmed through experiments that brisk walking can lengthen long-lived telomeres and prolong life by 16 years.
Recently, the Leicester Biomedical Research Center of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) of the University of Leicester, UK, published the research results of walking speed in the world's top scientific journal "Communications Biology". In this experiment, the researchers included 400,000 middle-aged people in the British Biobank as experimental subjects, with an average age of 56 years, who wore professional wristbands to record their movement data.
Scientists define walking speed according to the normal function of the human body: slow (less than 4.8 kilometers per hour), moderate speed (4.8-6.4 kilometers per hour) and fast (more than 6.4 kilometers per hour).
Finally, from the genetic data of these participants, as well as the data from the wristband accelerometer records and the participants' self-reported walking speed, the experimental results were analyzed and it was found that the telomeres of the fast walkers were longer, and the telomeres were longer. A biological marker of cellular aging, its length determines the rate of human aging. The difference in telomere length between fast and chronic walkers is equivalent to a biological age of 16 years.
As we age, our telomeres continue to shorten. This is because human cells are in the process of continuous division. Each time a cell divides, the telomeres inside the cell shorten. When the telomeres are shortened to a certain extent, the cells can no longer divide, so they go to decline, and the human body begins to Towards aging, so fundamentally, preserving telomere length and keeping cells alive is the key to staying young. This anti-aging channel has also been confirmed by Harvard scientists. Professor Sinclair, a Harvard biologist, found in his experiments that after supplementing the longevity molecule coenzyme 1 (the core substance of "celery") to old mice, the damaged cells in the body were repaired, and the length of telomeres was protected at the same time. Similar to healthy mice, the survival period was extended by 30%.
The University of Washington, Peking University, Tsinghua University and other universities have also conducted related research on this substance. This long-lived molecule is an endogenous substance in the human body, that is, the substance that originally exists in the human body, and its safety is relatively high. As the age increases, the level of this substance in the body decreases, and the aging process accelerates. Although some daily foods such as broccoli and tuna contain this substance, the content is extremely low. Scientists took this as a breakthrough and successfully developed a long-lived molecular product such as "Selori", which helps the human body to supplement enough to meet its needs. Professor Sinclair, the developer of this substance, took himself as an experimental subject for a long time. His actual biological age in his 50s is only 30 years old. According to the public data of Jing-D East, it has covered more than one million groups.
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The lifespan limit is 120-150 years old, and the world's recognized oldest old man is Japan's Tanaka Rikko, who lived to 119 years old, which shows that the human body has the potential to reach the lifespan ceiling.
Today, more and more longevity technologies have been developed. In the experiment, Israeli scientists inhaled high-pressure pure oxygen to the elderly subjects. After 3 months, the physiological aging indicators were greatly improved, which is equivalent to being 20 years younger. Civil. The new longevity gene KAT7 discovered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been cut out to extend the survival rate of mice by 25%.
The development of science is gradually uncovering the mystery of aging. More and more mechanisms of longevity are being discovered. The longevity principle of brisk walking, which has been passed down from ancient times to the present, has been cracked, and the core longevity molecule of "Cellaror" supplement has been discovered. Scientific knowledge has helped people to achieve a leap in lifespan. Some industry experts believe that thanks to the progress of anti-aging science and technology , children born in 2070 can live to be 150 years old. In the future, it may not be impossible for everyone to be a hundred years old.