Find out how to extend life

After eating " special servings ", worms live about 10% longer than average life expectancy. Assuming a person can live 100 years, this method can extend his life by 10 years.

Food supplement isotopes can last 10% of human life.(Artwork: Flickr)

Some previous scientific work has shown that animals can live longer than the average life span by feeding the body with as little food as possible. This technique is called " calorie restriction ". But the method of recent research is completely different.

Mikhail Shchepinov and scientists from Oxford University (UK) for round worms Caenorhabditis elegans eat pork, chicken is added with isotopes of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen - essential elements for the body animal.

Isotopes are substances with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. For example, carbon has 6 protons and 6 neutrons. An isotope of carbon, called C13, has 6 protons and 7 neutrons.

After eating " special diets ", worms live about 10% longer than their average lifespan. Assuming that one day humans can live up to 100 years old, the same pressure method can extend life by 10 years if it is applied to humans, the researchers said.

Experts say eating isotopic supplements of common elements helps minimize the damage caused by free radicals to the body, avoiding disease and slowing down aging.

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