Immortality
doesn’t seem to be so far away. This concept of a substance that can make you
live forever, comes from alchemists, the fathers of nowadays scientists. But no
one have ever found the “philosopher’s stone”, till now.
Some
scientists from Nazarbayev University in the capital, Astana, have been asked
to develop a drink, similar to a yogurt, called “nar”. This idea came from their
72-year-old leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has being reigning since 1990 and
wants to keep doing it till 2020.
This drink
is based on the idea that all the diseases are caused in the stomach.
Apparently the digestive system has a hundred trillion microbes, which is ten
times more the amount of the in the rest of our main organs. The mixture of
this microbes causes diseases as diabetes, obesity and even cancer. Controlling
them with special probiotics can be the answer to have a longer and healthier
life.
Country
rulers will always want to remind in power for a longer time, even queen Elizabeth
is interested in this improvement.
This drink
obviously won’t be sold on shops, but it has been already tested and openly presented
in an international scientific conference at the beginning of this month, in
the Nazarbayev University.
Did you
know about microbes? Would you try “nar”? why? Do you think it’s ok for a country’s
governator asked the scientific community to develop this kind of experiments?
I dind´t know about this elixir. I heard that one way to prevent growing older was to inhibit the aging of a part of the chromosomes. Particularly, I wouldn´t try drinking the yogurt. It might sound weird, but I think that we enjoy our lives because we know that it will end someday.
ReplyDeleteYou dind´t talk about the cost, but I think that it wouldn´t be too cheap... Do you think that it would be fair for people with low incomes?? or what about overpopulation? I believe that there would have to be some way to control it.
Actually it can't be launched because the gobernator of that country doesn't let scientist to do it. He wants to keep this secret for himself. Even if the scientific community knows about it, its owner is really jealous about it.
DeleteHopefully, someday we will have the chamce to drink it, maybe being inmortal is not the desire that everyone is keen on, but having a good quality life,specially in our last days on earth.
People are always looking for immortality. In fact, science has increase life expectancy in over 80 years. I agree that the fact you know you are going to die make live worthy. Do you want to know the secret of immortality? PLANT A TREE; WRITE A BOOK; CREATE LIFE... that's all.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I found that on Youtube and I thought it was hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEubt6HpGhs Enjoy it!