100 days of life under water
Joseph Dituri admitted to himself that the experiment led to negative consequences
Everyone sometimes has the thought: is it possible to look a few years younger and regain my former beauty and health? 55-year-old professor and former US Navy diver Joseph Dituri, known by the nickname “Deep Sea Doctor”, decided to conduct an experiment. He settled in Jules’ Underwater Residence Hotel, which is located underwater at the bottom of the lagoon in Key Largo, Florida.
The operation was called “Neptune 100” and the goal was for him to spend 100 days under water and check how this pressure of the water column affects the human body.
The professor lived and worked in the underwater hotel, gave online lectures, ate right and did physical exercises.
During all this time of his stay, the instruments studied his condition. On day 93, doctors noticed significant changes in Dituri’s body, with cholesterol levels dropping by 72%, markers of inflammation also dropping, and telomeres (hundreds or thousands of repeats of the same short DNA sequence) and chromosome tips were increased by 20%. The number of stem cells increased 10-fold. The deep sleep phase also increased by 60%. The results surprised the professor himself and he claimed to have become 10 years younger!
However, his colleagues immediately began to doubt that it was his stay under water that created this miracle. According to them, in isolation, the scientist was simply less worried and led a healthier lifestyle.
But a month later Dituri himself admitted that not everything ended so smoothly. First, he complained that his height had significantly decreased, then he had to consult an ophthalmologist because of the sudden severe myopia. The scientist does not exclude that these negative consequences for his body are not the first with which he will have to fight.
But in any case Dituri set a new world record: no one had lived so long underwater.
Translation for Trud news – Pavel Pavlov
2023-08-09 19:01:22
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