Research: lowering body temperature extends the lifespan of mice

Scientists discovered that lowering the body temperature of mice extended their lifespan by 20%. The researchers: It is still not safe to apply the method to humans

Lowering the body temperature of mice extended their lifespan by up to 20%, said scientists involved in trying to find ways to extend human life. Although, researchers have calmed the excitement, this procedure probably won't be as effective in humans.
Researchers have already established in the past that the lives of warm-blooded creatures can be extended by reducing the amount of calories they consume. But in the current experiment, the researchers allowed the mice to eat as much as they wanted while at the same time lowering their body temperature slightly. The researchers said that "we were able to show that it is possible to achieve the positive results of limiting caloric intake on lifespan even without actually limiting caloric intake, but only applying its effect, which is a decrease in body temperature."
Scientists discovered a long time ago the connection between low body temperature and the prevention of aging in cold-blooded animals, but this is the first study that was able to prove a similar connection in warm-blooded animals. The animals that were involved in previous experiments that restricted caloric intake exhibited a side effect of a decrease in body temperature. The goal of the researchers this time was to find out whether it is the restriction of caloric intake that extends life span and the decrease in body temperature is only a side effect, or whether the decrease in body temperature itself is the one that extends life.
Advertisement The researchers found that mice with low body temperatures lived longer than mice with normal body temperatures. Female life expectancy increased by 20% while male life expectancy increased by only 12%. Another difference between the sexes was that the males weighed about 10% more than the females.
But if you're interested in living a decade or two beyond the average lifespan for humans, you'll have to wait at least a little longer. The researchers said that using the same technique of lowering body heat in humans in order to extend their lifespan is "possible in principle" but it is still unclear what the possible dangers of using this type of technique on humans are. "Unfortunately, it's not really practical to try this on humans at this point at least," the researchers said.