🔮 🧬🦠 Steps towards immortality….

we could live to 300 if we can unlock nature’s secrets ….

For centuries humans have dreamed of finding the secrets to long life, even the captivating idea of immortality. Scientists are searching ways to beat ageing, from trying to unlock genes and reverse or stall the ageing process, identifying the ability to conduct cellular repairs, to cloning body parts for replacement, and uploading our minds to continue in a different state of being.

Evading death options being explored today are generally along 4 categories:

1. Regenerate body parts
2. Leverage android bodies
3. Upload your mind to live in a virtual world
4. Cryogenics, just hold on until the technology is developed

To understand more, first we look to what we are working with, what exist today in nature amongst living organisms to learn from those that have somehow managed to evade death.

Humans today

What we know today from the areas on earth where people live the longest and healthiest …

BlueZones founder, Dan Buettner is a National Geographic Fellow and multiple New York Times bestselling author. He has discovered five places in the world ­ — dubbed blue zones — where people live the longest, and are healthiest: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece, and Loma Linda, California.

How to Live Longer, Better: Discovering the Blue Zones

The China Study is based on one of the largest comprehensive studies of human nutrition ever conducted, partnership between Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine, with data collected over a span of 20 years. T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and his son, Thomas M. Campbell II, MD, outline results from the study (and other influential nutrition research) and recommend their protocol for the best diet for long-term health. The study included 367 variables, 65 counties in China, and 6,500 adults, with more than 8,000 statistically significant associations between lifestyle, diet, and disease variables.” They also incorporate a wealth of additional research data from other sources.

The China Study - T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies

At the cellular level

Humans are made up of 50 trillion cells, the cells are the living entities controlled by the mind. In understanding the mechanics of the human body, we know that it’s made up of 150,000 different proteins that form the physical structure and functions. So at the molecular level, humans are basically proteins, with energy that communicates through vibration.

We are all interacting with each other like waves… we are each made up of atoms, with each cell in our body acting like a battery with ~1.4 volts, 50 trillion cells, 700 trillion volts in the body. Can be focused called Chi. Proteins respond to good vibes and bad vibes. Energy in the body that controls proteins is the vital force. When parts of our body are not healthy it could be because the signals are blocked, possibly due to trauma, toxins, or thought of the mind sending wrong signals at the wrong time.

At the physical level, there are some human organs and tissues that can regenerate such as arteries, skin, liver, lungs, and digestive tract, endometrium, and certain parts of your brain. They’re all continually refreshed…. if you’re healthy. It’s called maintenance regeneration.

The liver is the only organ in the body that can grow cells and regenerate itself. It can actually be split in half and transplanted into two different recipients. A living person also can have a portion of his or her liver removed, and the portion that remains will regenerate itself to nearly its original size.

Hashem Al-Ghaili on Instagram: "Your Body Constantly Renews Itself. #biology"

• Tastebuds lifespan ~10 to 14 days
• Lungs replace olds cells every 2 to 3 weeks
• Cells in stomach lining with acidic environment replaced every ~ 5 days
• Red blood cells replaced every ~ 4mths
• Skeletons replaced every ~10 yrs
• Brain hippocampus neurons replaced every 20 to 30 yrs
• Teeth permanent
• Eyes don’t change, except the cornea
• Heart stem cells replace new with old at least 3 to 4 times over lifetime
• fingernails grow an average 2mm or 3mm per month, toenails grow about 1mm per month
• Skin regenerates very ~35+ days

Extending Human Longevity With Regenerative Medicine

We look at nature to seek out secrets to immortality …

Tardigrade

The Tardigrade, the animal that will outlive us all: Practically Invisible, Indestructible ‘Water Bears’. Tardigrades are a phylum of water-dwelling, eight-legged, segmented micro-animals.

Starfish

Starfish that lose arms can grow new ones; Even if the critter is down to one arm, as long as it has its central nerve ring intact, it can grow into an entirely new starfish.

Like sea cucumbers, starfish are echinoderms and as such have a distributed system of nerves — the nerve plexus — within and below the skin. There is also a central ring of nerves around the mouth.

Some starfish can divide this central disc in two, with each half generating a new starfish. Others need an arm and a small part of this central ring to regenerate. The Indo-Pacific starfish genus Linckia is a master: it can regenerate its entire body from a single arm.

Scientists Search Starfish For Key to Human Regeneration

Jellyfish

The jellyfish has found a way to cheat death by actually reversing its aging process. When it’s injured or sick, it returns to its polyp stage over a three-day period, transforming its cells into a younger state that will eventually grow into adulthood all over again

Like 'Deadpool,' This Jellyfish Has Amazing Superpowers

Salamander

The amphibious salamander can regrow a lost tail to full length. This process sees cells migrating to the wound and then slowly regenerating the tail within a few weeks. The finished appendage is completely functional and has all the features of the original, with the spinal cord and nerves growing back too.

WATCH: Will humans one day be able to regrow limbs?

Axolotl

can make copies like Xerox — regenerating a missing limb; tail; and parts of their brain, heart, and lower jaw — but it’s a favorite study subject among scientists

“If they’re paralyzed in the back they can recover the functions of their legs … They can make all new neurons and new connections that allow them to use their legs again, which is really one of the most incredible examples of recovery.”

Regeneration: What the axolotl can teach us about regrowing human limbs - Science in the News

Deer

Antlers growing back “is one of the most extreme examples of regeneration out there,” Monaghan said. A deer can regrow 60 pounds (27 kilograms) in as little as three months.

Scientists are studying deer antlers to find new ways to treat human nerve damage

Sea Squirt/Tunicate

This little squirt could be responsible for some big insight into regeneration.

surprisingly similar to us genetically. An international team of scientists recently sequenced the genome of the tunicate Botryllus schlosseri and found that 77 percent of our genes were present, offering hope for regenerative medicines in people. Sea Squirts Have Precursor to Human Heart.

real area of intrigue is why tunicates’ regenerative abilities slow down with age, making them a potential platform for studying aging in animals — including us.

Sea squirt fragment regenerates entire body

Gecko

Tail autotomy — the ability to drop the tail — has evolved in several groups of geckos, other lizards, and salamanders.

These animals have points of weakness called “fracture planes”, spaced regularly along the tail, either between or in the middle of vertebrae. To drop the tail, specialised muscles contract at the fracture planes, shattering vertebrae. Further muscles then contract around the caudal vertebra to minimise bleeding.

Lizards that have evolved this defence strategy often have brightly coloured tails which continue to move after separation, to attract a predator’s attention and give the lizard time to escape.

The tail grows back with a rod of cartilage in place of the lost bones of the spine.

Lizards who lose all or part of their tails can grow new ones. This is a good escape technique. A lost tail will continue to wiggle, which might distract the predator and give the lizard a chance to escape. Most lizards will have regrown their tail within nine months.

Geckos can regenerate parts of their brain, which could help us heal our own

Flatworms

Planarians are flat worms. If cut into pieces, each piece can grow into a new worm.

These Flatworms Can Regrow A Body From A Fragment. How Do They Do It And Could We?

Sea cucumbers

Sea cucumbers have bodies that can grow to be three feet long. If cut into pieces, each one can become a new sea cucumber due to its ability to mend its organs in short periods of time, regrowing damaged parts and healing deep wounds in as little as a week. This is a vital skill for the sea cucumber, however, as in order to defend itself from crabs or turtles, the creature often drop certain organs as a distraction technique.

The sea cucumber genome points to genes for tissue regeneration

Sharks

Sharks continually replace lost teeth. A shark may grow 24,000 teeth in a lifetime.

Secret Of Shark Ability To Regenerate Deadly Teeth Revealed By Researchers

Spiders

Spiders can regrow missing legs or parts of legs. If a spider is unfortunate enough to lose a leg perhaps in battle, then provided it still has at least one more moult left in its life cycle it’s able to grow a new leg initially thinner and shorter than the original leg. It can take two or three moults until the regenerated limb matches the original in appearance.

Spider silk also have self healing properties

Spider Silk Could Be Used to Create Artificial Skin For Grafts | Digital Trends

Sponges

Sponges can be divided. In that case, the cells of the sponge will regrow and combine exactly as before.

Can Sponges Regenerate? - Maybe. | Tuff Sponge

Further reading …

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