LIVING LONGER

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12295, 8 April 1937, Page 2

LIVING LONGER

‘ ‘ RE-CHARGING ’ ’ THE BODY LIKE A BATTERY

NEW RAYS THAT STOP DECAY

“li.r. Times” Special Service.—Uy Air Mail London, March C. Experiments are now being carried out in England which, it is hoped, will result in enabling men and women to live between forty and fifty years longer. The work has nothing to do with “monkey glands” or rejuvenation operations. It is being done by British men and women scientists at Oxford, Cambridge and London universities and in two leading London hospitals. Among experiments already made are:

Suspended animation during which you can he put in “storage” from time to time in a hypnotic or drug trance. In the future, instead of going to the sea for a holiday, people may go into storage and recuperate. “Re-oxidisation” of the tissues, in the way a car battery is recharged when it runs down. This process will undo the wear and tear of modern fast-running. “Alpha,” “Beta” and “Omega” raws, it is claimed by one group of scientists, are able to arrest decay. These would he on much tlie same lines as ultra-violet and in-fra-red ray treatments.

Great progress has been made, particularly in the use of rays and serums for arresting decay of the cells and tissues.

When these rays and serums have been perfected there is every likelihood that the expectancy of life will he increased to 100 years. The scientists have found that happy marriage adds five years to the life of a man or woman. An unhappy marriage takes five years off. A doctor engaged on this work said: “We hope very shortly to be able to produce artificial means of staving off death. When this is accomplished life will not only be longer, it will be happier too.”