How to prolong active, healthy life – recent discoveries by scientists.
About what to sleep it is useful to any of us mum told in childhood. Scientists working on the problem of how to postpone ageing, have found details about what kind of sleep is useful, and why.
In our body, in the center of the brain is located the pineal gland called epiphysis which produces the hormone melatonin. Largely because of this hormone, we go to sleep naturally without sleeping pills.
During the night’s sleep, the body increases the production of melatonin (peaking in time from about 12 am to 4 am), and the hormone begins to create the present miracles. It is proved that a deep sleep has a rejuvenating effect on the mind and body. Namely:
By the way, also is proving what exactly during a night’s sleep, work our stem cells: they go out of their stem niches, and sent to the organs and tissues that need repair. Therefore, only at night, sleep there is a regeneration, in fact – real health improvement. Alas, the daytime naps have no such effect. So to slow the aging, still need to go to bed early and sleep at night.
We are waiting for a victory over a side effect
Unfortunately, with age, the activity of the pineal gland decreases produces less melatonin (which is why, by the way, older people sleepless), and this, in turn, further accelerating the ageing process. Therefore, one of the anti-aging techniques, on which scientists work – is delivered into the body of the missing melatonin, for example, in the form of drugs.
By this method in experimental flies, Drosophila life span increased by 10 – 20%, in mice results were 50 to 50: about half of the mice lived longer with artificial melatonin. At the same time revealed the dangerous side effects: the drug with melatonin increased the incidence of lymphoma (a tumor of the hematopoietic system). While at the same time confirmed the positive effects of melatonin: enhanced immunity, reduction of other cancers (excluding lymphoma).
Now scientists are trying to create a drug that would preserve the beneficial properties, including anti-ageing properties of melatonin, and the “cut off” a dangerous side effect.
Useful (good) stress
In practice, examples of useful stress are:
Stay young!
How to use anti-ageing methods that are available to each of us, to renew an active, healthy life:
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