If you prevent your body from rusting, will you be able to achieve immortality?

March 2, 2021

If you prevent your body from rusting, will you be able to achieve immortality?

In the world of health and beauty, the word “antioxidant” is now used as a matter of course, but do you know what it means?　

To put it bluntly, it means to keep the body, or body cells, from oxidizing, or rusting.

Does oxidizing the body mean that the cells will rust like iron? If you’re wondering, that’s fine. The aging of the body is very similar to the aging of iron, which rusts and falls apart.

In other words, “antioxidant” means to resist the oxidation of body cells, which in turn prevents the body from aging.

Even at the same age, there are people who look old and people who do not. In other words, there are individual differences in the speed of aging. One of the major factors in this is whether or not you have a diet and lifestyle that easily rusts (i.e. oxidizes) your body.

The most common examples of this are cigarettes and alcohol. The number of cigarettes you smoke or the number of times you drink alcohol excessively is the amount you are oxidizing (aging) your body cells.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s look at it from a different perspective. What would happen if we could prevent aging? What if we could prevent aging 100%? Yes, immortality.

In the early days of B.C., Qin Shi Huang, who was in pursuit of immortality, drank mercury thinking it was a medicine for immortality, and died of mercury poisoning. But even today, with the development of technology, there are still researchers studying immortality, and of course, it is a scientific study.

Dr. Aubrey de Gray of the United States, who is an avid researcher of immortality, lists seven conditions for immortality.

He says

1. Eliminate mutations in nuclear chromosomes that cause cancer (prevention of cancer)

2. Eliminate mitochondrial mutations (prevent the cells from producing energy).

3. Reduce the amount of garbage inside the cells (prevent cardiovascular diseases)

4. Reduce extracellular debris (prevent Alzheimer’s disease, which can cause blurred vision)

5. Maintain the formation of extracellular cross-links (maintain the body’s elasticity, prevent wrinkles and high blood pressure)

6. Reduce the number of cells that should die but do not (prevent heart failure)

7. Preventing cell death (apoptosis)

All of them are convincing conditions that if we could really prevent them, we would not age, which would mean immortality would be possible.

And here’s the key: all seven conditions are related to oxidation of the body. In other words, if we live in a way that promotes rather than prevents these seven conditions, our aging process will accelerate. Through the research on immortality, the conditions for aging quickly have also become clearer. Even if immortality is not possible, it is human nature to want to prevent premature aging, isn’t it?

In other words, “antioxidant” is not just about making your skin a little more beautiful or preventing fatigue from carrying over to the next day. What it does is extend your healthy life span, and the ultimate goal is immortality.

Dr. de Grey’s seven conditions that must be prevented in order to achieve immortality have yet to be realized even with modern technology, but at least today we know exactly what shortens life. It is oxidation of body cells. It is important to keep this in mind.

However, there is one more important condition that you must never forget. We must make sure that we do not make the same mistake as the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, who drank mercury as a medicine for immortality and died.

What should we do to achieve this?　

Choose things that have been scientifically proven to have antioxidant effects. Whether it’s diet, lifestyle, or supplements, don’t be fooled by mere rumors, myths, or hype, choose things that have scientific evidence. If you do this, you will be able to extend your healthy life span.