I am 84 years old now and when I walk into my greenhouse in the morning, I still smell the earth as strongly as when I was 20. To me, the truffles I harvest there are not a product but living friends. They grow, they breathe, they carry secrets inside them that are older than all of us. And sometimes, looking at the dew with a hot cup of tea, I feel they tell me something about time. About how to grow old, and yet stay young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was sitting on the veranda in the evening sun the other day with my tablet in hand, browsing the internet. Then I read something new that made my heart beat faster. Scientists discovered that psilocin, the converted form of psilocybin in the body, extends the lifespan of human skin and lung cells by more than 50 per cent. And they saw that old mice, at about the age that humans are sixty, had increased survival, their fur looked fuller again, their hair less grey. Signs that ageing was slowed down.
There are more voices hearing the same thing. An article on Medical News Today writes that cells in the laboratory age more slowly, suffer less damage and take better care of their DNA. Popular science media report that telomeres are better preserved, oxidative stress decreases and molecules like Sirt1 light up like little fires of youth in the body. And there is also the psilocybin telomere hypothesis that has been going around for years. Which says that conscious ingestion of psilocybin can protect the length of telomeres. Telomeres are like the ends of laces of our DNA, they wear out and get shorter over time. If you can protect them, you will stay young longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And today I came across this video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n