There is no stopping aging, but the right lifestyle can slow the process down.
As researchers found, spermidine has rejuvenating effects.
Few of them struggle with physical ailments at a young age. The immune system and metabolism are in balance, wrinkles and hair loss are a long way off.
But over the years there are many physical changes
- most of which are associated with negative consequences. Age-related, for example, can lead to the loss of nerve cells, poor metabolic activity and a weakening heart.
As the Hannover Medical School (MHH) informs, autophagy plays an essential role in the aging process.
Autophagy is a kind of endogenous recycling system that breaks down superfluous or damaged cell components.
This protects cells, which in turn prevents the development of diseases.
Age-related disturbances in the clean-up mechanism occur, which results in pathological changes.
But as a research group around Professor Dr.
Evgeni Ponimaskin from the Institute for Neurophysiology at the Medical University of Hanover discovered that
autophagy
can be
revived with the substance spermidine
.
Anti-aging effect of spermidine: less organ damage, less hair loss
In the study, which the researchers from Hanover published in cooperation with the University of Graz, the study authors were able to prove that the administration of spermidine in a mouse experiment has a rejuvenating effect. The research group of neurophysiologists, nuclear medicine specialists and molecular biologists examined the effects on aged mice and administered spermidine to the animals for six months in the drinking water, according to the press release of the MHH. Compared to non-treated animals of the same age, the mice showed clear anti-aging effects. “
The spermidine supply ensured that the animals developed less kidney and liver damage and a better performance-enhancing glucose supply in the brain
“, Says study leader Evgeni Ponimaskin.
Age-related hair loss was also significantly lower than in the control group.
Bald spots on the back, as is typical for older mice, were hardly visible thanks to the spermidine supply, according to the MHH announcement.
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According to the scientists, spermidine should also have a heart-protecting effect.
Although no studies have yet been carried out on humans, the researchers at the MHH assume that spermidine intake as a dietary supplement could also protect humans against many age-related diseases,
because the aging processes in the cells of mice are similar to those in human body cells,
it says on the part of the MHH.
Where is spermidine found?
Spermidine was first discovered in male seminal fluid, which is what gave the substance its name.
It is now known that spermidine occurs in all body cells and that certain intestinal bacteria are able to produce this substance.
The main part, however, has to be taken in through food, according to the researchers at the MHH.
The following foods contain a lot of spermidine:
Wheat germ
cheese
Soy products
legumes
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