Pablo Motos He did it again. His name resonates on social media as he has used his media loudspeaker to spread pseudoscience without breaking a sweat. But this case is even more serious because he did not do it alone, but had a doctor’s explanation. Anna BaezaCoordinator of Health Services and Natural Therapies Wellness Clinic SHA in Alicante. Interestingly, the doctor demonstrates excellent informative skills when explaining how the system works. cold plasma treatment to whom Pablo Motos is going to submit. The problem is that what he reveals has no scientific backing.
In particular, in the video, which the presenter Anthill He says he’s going to use a cell regeneration machine that practically promises to be an elixir of eternal youth. This type of cybernetic bed converts the air in the room into cold atmospheric plasma and thereby acts against aging on three different levels.
Soon everything sounds very good. You must do this. Otherwise, it would be impossible to justify a €7,000 anti-aging treatment. The problem is that it’s not just about sounding good. This should also work. And that’s another story.
What is cold plasma?
As Dr. Baeza explains well in Pablo Motos’ video, plasma is state of matter less known than solid, liquid or gaseous. It is formed from highly excited gasin such a way that many ions with a positive or negative charge are formed, as well as a large number of free electrons.
This is initially achieved by significantly increasing the temperature. In fact, the Sun is mostly made of plasma for this very reason. If we heat a solid, it will turn into a liquid and then into a gas. Heating much greater than the initial one would bring us into a plasma state.
The problem is that temperature those required are so high that they cannot be used for human purposes. For this reason, methods of exciting air at atmospheric pressure capable of producing cold plasma have been explored in the past. In this case, it is achieved that the excess energy transferred to the gas during an electrical discharge is transferred only to free electrons. They heat up, but the rest of the plasma remains at the same level. room temperature.
One of the first uses of this cold plasma was to surface disinfection. This is due to the fact that during the transition to the plasma state, many free radicals are formed. Free radicals are molecules that have lost electrons from their final shell and need to steal electrons from other molecules to stabilize. In this case, they steal them from the membrane of the pathogens to such an extent that they die or are inactivated.
Over time, it was noticed that with a very controlled approach, this could also have medical applications. This is the basis of the treatment that Pablo Motos underwent. But it’s not as simple as it seems.
Expensive and useless treatment of Pablo Motos
In this video by Pablo Motos, Dr. Baeza talks about three reasons why the Cell Regeneration Machine is so beneficial. On the one hand, it is assumed that free electrons and protons of cold plasma serve to form THXa molecule that cells use as currency to exchange energy.
He also points out that cold plasma stimulates the vagus nerve. It has many functions such as controlling reflexes such as swallowing or vomiting. But it also interferes with the production of hormones that relax the nervous system in stressful situations. Therefore, with stimulation, stress, so closely associated with the aging process, can be artificially reduced.
Finally, Dr. Baeza notes that cold plasma neutralizes free radicals. That is, it prevents these molecules from stealing electrons from our DNA. This phenomenon is closely related to cellular aging, so it could be an excellent anti-aging therapy.
The Reality of Cold Plasma Research
To Caesar what is Caesar’s. It is true that cold plasma is being researched, among other things, for the purpose of stimulating cell regeneration. However, these procedures continue to be studied. This is something very delicate. We have already seen that cold plasma itself contains free radicals capable of destroying bacterial cells. I could do the same with ours. Therefore, it is very important to control these levels of free radicals, as well as the resulting ions and free electrons. This process is under study, and although there are some results, the mechanisms are still not sufficiently understood to be widely used in medicine. clinical environment.
On the other hand, it is true that ATP needs protons. But it is not enough to provide them exogenously through a shot of cold plasma. They are usually produced through a process called oxidative phosphorylation, from the proton gradient formed in the electron transport chain of mitochondria. These are cellular organelles in which the specified energy is obtained. Organelles that can actually be destroyed by excess free radicals if not properly controlled. In short, the free protons from receiving cold plasma would not be sufficient to initiate oxidative phosphorylation.
What about the vagus nerve?
There is not the slightest scientific evidence that cold plasma is beneficial for stimulate the vagus nerve. It is true that stimulation of this nerve has been studied to control stress and treat disorders such as depression. But the mechanisms are very different. Moreover, again, this procedure is still in its infancy and there is still a lot of research to be done.
All that glitters is not gold
Wellness clinics such as SHA Alicante often promise simple results for complex problems. Need to much moneyCertainly.
The problem is that Cellular aging is a multifactorial problem which cannot be attacked simply with cold plasma. A lot of research needs to be done to find a methodology that is sure to be much more complex.
So in this case the only thing they do is use hard to understand scientific terms and masquerade as science, which is still a scam to people who don’t mind spending thousands of euros to appear a little younger.
In 210 BC, the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang He spent most of his wealth on mercury tablets that promised eternal youth; but, on the contrary, they became the cause of his death. Much later, in the 16th century, the Spaniards Juan Ponce de Leon He conquered distant lands until he found a fountain that would supposedly help those who drink from it to live forever. He died 11 years later from wounds inflicted by the indigenous inhabitants of the lands he decided to conquer.
Nowadays, it is not necessary to drink poisons or conquer distant lands. But there are some things that haven’t changed. Rich and powerful people continue to invest huge amounts of money to avoid the inevitable and reverse the natural human process. Indeed, science has managed to make some steps in this direction, but there is no source of eternal youth. Not in a spring, not in some exotic pills or in a cell regeneration machine.
Source: Hiper Textual
