We often tell you about different studies, the purpose of which is treatment of the aging process of the human body reversed. And finally, for the first time in history, humans managed to rejuvenate your body using gene therapy. This man was 45-year-old American Elizabeth Parrish, voluntarily decided to experience developed her own research company BioViva method of rejuvenation.
Elizabeth had two cycles of gene therapy, starting in September 2015. One course was intended to prevent the loss of muscle mass, and the second aimed at increasing the level of production of telomerase. Telomerase is an enzyme that adds repeating sequences to the end of the DNA chain to sites of telomeres. Telomeres – the end segments of chromosomes that serve a protective function. With each cell division telomeres become shorter, with the result that our body is aging and, in the end, fails. For years, scientists struggled to find a way to compensate for the shortening of telomeres and stop the aging process.
Previously, this gene therapy has already been successfully tested on live cells and on several types of laboratory animals. But no one still dared to conduct a full testing of these drugs on people. Elizabeth Parrish, despite serious risks to their health, went to Colombia to avoid the need to approve a gene-therapy drugs to the U.S. government’s FDA Committee. There she did all the necessary injections under the strict supervision of the company’s employees BioViva. Many scholars have given mixed reviews to the brave act of women, criticizing it for excessive riskiness of the experiment.
Parrish readily agreed to answer any questions users of the popular service Reddit. Anyone can ask her about the sensations in the process of rejuvenation, and to find out if there were any side effects in the process of this historically significant experiment. The results of studies before and after gene therapy showed that Elizabeth managed to not only stop the shortening of their telomeres (they were measured in 2015 and 2016, respectively), but also to make them 20 years younger. Anyway, the experiment is still ongoing, and the whole world is curiously watching the state of health of Elizabeth.
