Neurologist, geriatrician and neurophysiologist Valery Novoselov, in a conversation with aif.ru (18+), spoke about obvious and hidden ways to increase life expectancy.
The obvious ones include: proper nutrition, giving up bad habits, proper rest and regular physical activity.
Among the less common methods, the expert noted interval normobaric hypoxic therapy. This non-drug approach affects the body at various levels: genetic, epigenetic and metabolic.
“This mechanism changes the functioning of our entire metabolism at the genetic level, epigenetic level, metabolic level. This can give an additional 10-15 years of active life, and most importantly, a healthy life,” the expert noted.
As Novoselov explained, the principle of the method is to alternately inhale an air mixture with a reduced oxygen content at normal blood pressure and ordinary air with the usual level of oxygen. This procedure is used in medical practice for the prevention, therapy and recovery of patients.
The specialist mentioned that in 2019, for their discovery in the field of studying cell adaptation to oxygen levels, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to scientists from the USA and Great Britain: William Kalin Jr., Gregg Semenza and Peter Ratcliffe. They studied the mechanisms by which cells respond and adapt to changes in oxygen concentrations in the environment.
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