Longevity
APPLICATIONS
We are not immortal and we will not be able to be, but we can all aim to live longer and above all healthier.
On the theoretical level, aging is due to the interaction between intrinsic (genetic), extrinsic (environment) and stochastic (random event) factors. To these must be added the epigenetic factors that belong to the individual, but can be influenced by the environment in which he lives. Epigenetics represents the set of mechanisms (epigenome) that allow DNA to express itself, resulting in a specific phenotype.
The aging of an individual is, therefore, an extremely complex process that derives from the interaction between genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors, to which is added the chance event. The importance of the “genetic” factor increases proportionally with increasing age and becomes significant, in its contribution, after the age of 60; before that age, the genetic component can determine approximately 25% of the variations related to life expectancy.
Several theories have been developed to explain the phenomenon of aging (for example the theory of free radicals) and each of them provides for specific areas of cellular modulation.
Among the candidate genes for determining longevity, there are those linked to immune and inflammatory functions, to the response to oxidative stress and those involved in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Aging is generally associated with the decline of the immune response (the so-called immunosenescence); at the same time, aging is characterized by a chronic state of mild inflammation (inflamm-aging), which manifests itself with the doubling of the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and acute phase proteins.
Hydrogen Therapy certainly represents a unique tool in its way of dealing with all the issues involved in the aging process: Oxidative Stress, Chronic Inflammatory Processes, Mitochondrial Energy Stimulation, positive immunomodulatory activity.
Dozens of clinical studies in humans have demonstrated the efficacy of molecular hydrogen to be a powerful and selective antioxidant agent, to mediate inflammatory processes through multiple mechanisms and to activate mitochondrial metabolic pathways to produce energy. So not words, but experimentally and clinically proven facts.