Buckeyballs Double Lab Rat Lifespans.

[JimBowie1958]

Chronic Buckyball Administration Doubles Rat Lifespan

In the current study researchers fed the molecule dissolved in olive oil to rats and compared outcomes to a control group of rats who got plain olive oil.

The main question they wanted to answer was whether chronic C60 administration had any toxicity, what they discovered actually surprised them.

“Here we show that oral administration of C60 dissolved in olive oil (0.8 mg/ml) at reiterated doses (1.7 mg/kg of body weight) to rats not only does not entail chronic toxicity,” they write “but it almost doubles their lifespan.”

“The estimated median lifespan (EML) for the C60-treated rats was 42 months while the EMLs for control rats and olive oil-treated rats were 22 and 26 months, respectively,” they write.

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After five months
of treatment (M15) one rat treated with water only exhibited some
palpable tumours in the abdomen region. Due to the rapid development
of tumours (about 4 cmof diameter) this rat died atM17. As
rats are known to be sensitive to gavages, we decided to stop the
treatment for all rats and to observe their behaviour and overall
survival.
All remaining animals survived with no apparent sign of
behavioural trouble until M25 (Fig. 3a). At the end of M25 the
animals of the control groups showed signs of ulcerative dermatitis
with ageing while C60-treated animals remained normal. As the
growths of all surviving animals showed no significant difference
until M30 (Fig. 3b) indicating that the treatment did not alter their
food intake, we continued observing their survival.
At M38 all water-treated control rats were dead (Fig. 3a). This
agrees with the expected lifespan of this animal species that is
thirty to thirty six months. At this time 67% of olive-oil-treated rats
and 100% of C60-treated rats were still alive.

Once the first rat died, they stopped giving the rats the Buckeyball solution, so who knows how long they could have lived had they continued?

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd gonna live forever from readin' all dem comic books while eatin' Granny's fried chicken...

Study: Reading May Extend Lifespan
August 08, 2016 - That reading is good for your brain has been known for a long time, but a new study shows that picking up a book regularly could lengthen your life.

Writing in the journal Social Science and Medicine, researchers from Yale University said it doesn’t really matter what you read, as long as you read. The longer, the better.

Students are seen studying in a library on the campus of California State University in Long Beach, California, Oct. 19, 2012. After factoring in age, gender, education and economic status, researchers found that readers lived two years longer than non-readers.​

Researchers reached their conclusions by looking at data from 3,635 health survey participants. They were broken down into three groups — those reading up to three-and-a-half hours per week, those who read more, and those who didn’t read at all.

After factoring in age, gender, education and economic status, they found that readers lived two years longer than non-readers. Furthermore, they found that those who read up to 3.5 hours were 17 percent less likely to die over the next dozen years, with those reading longer than that were 23 percent less likely to die.

Study: Reading May Extend Lifespan

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To Live Longer, Eat More Chicken and Plant-based Protein
August 07, 2016 - The traditional American diet is full of red meat - steaks and hamburgers and processed meat. That's where many Americans get their protein. As this diet becomes more popular in other countries, heart disease becomes more common, too. Now, new research shows that when people depend less on animal protein and replace it with plant protein, they can expect to live longer, healthier lives.

The study was led by Dr. Mingyang Song, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "People should not only care about how much protein they consume, but also pay attention to what kind of food they consume to gather the protein," Song said. Protein is important for body structure, physiology and metabolism. It helps build and repair bones and muscles. But the type of protein is also important. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, looked at data from two large studies that lasted 20-plus years. Song and his colleagues focused on how much protein 131,342 U.S. adults consumed in their daily diets and what the source of that protein was.

The data came from the national Nurses' Health Study that lasted 32 years and Health Professionals Follow-up Study at Harvard that went on for 26 years. The participants provided detailed information about their diets in frequent questionnaires. Song said the findings could change the advice doctors and government agencies provide to their patients and to the general public. Co-author Andrew Chan, also of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said the study showed that “Individuals that consumed the highest amounts of animal based proteins had a somewhat higher risk of mortality, in particular, cardiovascular mortality.”

The researchers found that a 10 percent increase in animal protein was linked to an 8 percent increase in the risk of death due to cardiovascular disease. They found this association was stronger among people with unhealthy lifestyle factors - people who smoked or drank heavily, who were obese and/or were physically inactive. Chan added, “Some of the association between unhealthy lifestyle and animal protein may be driven primarily by the fact that these people tended to consume more red and processed meat than fish or chicken.” However, those with a healthier lifestyle did not see an increase in their risk of dying.

Still, the study showed that a 10 percent increase in plant protein (ie: nuts, seeds, beans and tofu) was linked to a 10 percent decrease in mortality, and a 12 percent decrease in death from cardiovascular disease. “Clearly, over the long term, a diet which is comprised of primarily plant-based proteins tends to be more favorable for longevity than someone who consumes most of their protein from animal sources,” Song said.

Eating more plant protein associated with lower risk of death, according to Harvard study

 

[JimBowie1958]

The article on rat life spancs being doubled with Buckey Ball injections has disappeared into the internet Aether.

So here are three more instead.

Fullerene C60 administration doubles rat lifespan with no toxicity | KurzweilAI

Diet of buckyballs nearly doubles rat lifespan

Plus a slightly more skeptical view

Do Buckyballs Extend Lifespan?