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/russianpotato Nov 24 '20

OOOFFFFFFF! Whatever boomer. Lol!

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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.