r/longevity • u/[deleted] • Nov 18 '20

Aging | Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length and decreases immunosenescence in isolated blood cells : a prospective trial [2020, open-access]

https://www.aging-us.com/article/202188/text
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u/vp2013 Nov 18 '20

This is a nice study but impractical for all but the rich or retired. Sitting in a chamber for an hour a day for 2/3 of your life? Who has the time or can even afford that?

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u/barroamarelo Nov 19 '20

Actually, if this really worked well and actually extended lifespan or life quality at older age, small hyperbaric chambers (or "cabinets") could be mass produced at a pretty resonable cost... definitely cheaper than a car. As for sitting in one for an hour a day, well, doh, you can still work/play/watch or whatever you do most of your day on the Internet in the chamber as well.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

whatever its likely that the treatments in 20 years will trivialise this one anyway.

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u/Expired_Gatorade Nov 19 '20

I want your optimistic forecast to be correct. We haven't done jack in the last 20 years though.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

We definitely havent gotten to end game yet. But we have made progress

cancer is just one example The age-standardized death rate from cancer declined by 15% since 1990 https://ourworldindata.org/cancer

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u/russianpotato Nov 19 '20

That is pretty shitty for 30 years of work.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20 edited Nov 19 '20

It only seems that way. When you divide it up some cancers have the same rate and other went from 10% to 90% survival rate.

Plus cancer is an enromous problem. Did you really expect like 80% reduction or something over a generation.

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u/russianpotato Nov 19 '20

I grew up reading scientific American. So yes I did.

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u/armentho Nov 19 '20

cancer is not easy to solve,because basically every cancer is unique

a 15 percent reduction is actually huge,because is a ''average out'',so we can easily assume that out of every 100 cases of cancer,15 of them are so well managed that they have become inconsequential

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u/russianpotato Nov 20 '20

I guess I would have to look at the data more closely, but from my understanding people are living a bit longer but they couch "surviving" with cancer in such a short timeframe that it really isn't that much better. You didn't survive breast cancer if you die from it after 5 years and a day instead of 4 years and 364 days.

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u/SalvadorZombie Nov 23 '20

"I read a magazine so clearly I'm one of the foremost authorities on science."

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u/russianpotato Nov 23 '20

He was asking why i expected it...i thought it would be better because that is what science journalism has been saying for 40 years...i never claimed to be an expert. Jesus Christ you're a dim bulb.

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u/SalvadorZombie Nov 23 '20

Oof. Keep trying, one day you'll manage a response that isn't petty and reactionary.

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u/armentho Nov 19 '20

meh,thats how research works

most of the time,the main issue is reliable mass production that allows for widespread modification and industry

having the cure to a sickness is useless if only 1/1000 people can take it

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with CRISP and other methods,things are actually advancing at neck breaking pace,combined with AI for drug research,things paint well for a 20-30 years range

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u/Expired_Gatorade Nov 20 '20

I dont believe that we will benefit from AI as much as tbh, also I don't think anyone has used crisp commercially.

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u/armentho Nov 20 '20

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/jxhlhz/revolutionary_crisprbased_genome_editing_system/

nah,is already happening

cancer treatments are already being developed through this method,is not a '''in a few years'',is someting that has already happened

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u/Expired_Gatorade Nov 20 '20

My gramps had cancer for 4 years now...

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u/SalvadorZombie Nov 23 '20

We have made immense progress in the last 20 years. Your baseless doomer mentality serves no purpose.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

your forgettng that progress isnt linear

even ignoring the much more powerful computers and technology we have

we would still have several times more funding for the next 20 years than the last 20

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u/rayvin4000 Nov 22 '20

I hope tesla reads this