'Eternal life bacteria makes me stronger, healthier'

01 October 2015 - 02:40 By ©The Daily Telegraph

If injecting yourself with 3.5 million-year-old bacteria could keep you looking and feeling youthful and healthy without having to fork out for a gym membership, would you do it? Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov, the head of Geocryology at Moscow State University, is looking for the key to eternal youth. So he has become a human guinea pig for a bacterium that could perhaps hold the key to longevity.The bacterium, named Bacillus F, is amazing because it has remained alive in the permafrost for millions of years.Scientists have tested it on mice and human blood cells, but Mr Brouchkov decided to inject himself with it."I've started to work longer, I haven't had flu for the last two years," he told The Siberian Times.Brouchkov said experiments were still being carried out with the bacterium."We need to find out how this bacteria prevents ageing. That is the way this science should develop. What is keeping that mechanism alive? How can we use it to our benefit?" ..

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