Could you live for 150 years through a transplant, as Putin and Xi Jinping said?

This week, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia and Kim Yun-aHis North Korean namesake met with Xi JinpingThe President of China in Beijing, in order to testify the military parade in memory of the end of the Second World War. Most of the conversations that took place were deprived. Nevertheless, the microphone that was supposed to be disconnected allowed a curious conversation between the presidents of China and Russia about how To expand people’s lives through organs transplant.

Putin’s translator said that “human organs can constantly transplant”, and then add it: “The more you live, the young it becomes, and immortality can even be achieved.” Xi Jinping, meanwhile, replied that “some predict that in this century humanity can live Up to 150 years“This conversation attracted the attention of people from around the world. Was it random or did they have some kind of secret project in their hands?

It is clear that these types of people are not inclined to talk about the time when they meet. When you have so much strength, you think that everything is possible, but the reality is that there are things that, regardless of how strong a person cannot achieve. How science can achieve this. But we really have Scientific tools Reach 150 years due to organs transplantation?

Of course, through organs transplantation

If through the transplantation of organs we could acquire the age of this organ, we could live for many years, but perhaps not for what you think. It will not be rejuvenated with the organs of the young man, but in achieving the same age that could achieve the mentioned organ. And there are some who can meet many more years than their receptors.

This is what became intuitive in 2008, in the Turkic. A 19 -year -old girl, who suffered from severe liver diseases, had been waiting for a transplant for some time when His liver began to endure loud. Everything was so fast and so serious that there was no time to wait for the perfect organ. Therefore, their doctors decided to resort to The liver that has already been rejected by other hospitals for belonging to A woman who died at the age of 93The field was much longer than its recipient, and it was presented as a problem, but there was no choice but to try. The young woman filed a transfer and 7 years later, when the body was 100, He was still healthy, with his daughter who had just crossed the yearField

After this conclusion, the time when the body can live was studied much more. It strongly depends on the body in question. For example, the heart and pancreas usually do not work very well when they transplant with age over 40. However, the liver and kidneys can become very long. In a study published in 2024, the maximum age at which these organs became analyzed after transplanting them in Much younger patients. It was calculated The maximum renal function is 104 years and the liver function, which reached 108.

Nevertheless, the receptors continue with their equal biological clock. They do not live for more years for the fact that they had a liver capable of reaching 108 years; Because, in fact, Style is much more complicated What. This indicates that if we want to reach 150 years, as Putin and Xi Jinping indicated, the key will not be in the organs transplant.

So what needs to be done?

The truth is that scientists do not agree with whether there is really the opportunity to reach 150 years. The person who lived most of the years was French Jeanne GalmentWhich died in 1997 at the age of 122. However, this is still an abnormal fact, since very few people exceed 110 years. Even the excess of the century is a problem.

Some scientists believe that people have a really maximum life expectancy that is nearby 115 yearsThey came to the field of this conclusion, taking into account historical data and how they progressed. If the calcium can really become something more common, why is no one successful?

Other scientists are much more optimistic. In fact, there are those who believe that the first person who will live 150 years, as Putin and Xi Jinping said, has already been born. Logically, to achieve this age, it is important to have Healthy lifestyle: Food in a balanced way, avoiding alcohol and tobacco, regularly practice physical exercises, sleep well … But there are many genetics, and it is here that some scientists believe that we can intervene.

Modified the genome for reverse aging is not simple, since this is due to a large accumulation DNA -Mutationwhich cannot be easily available. Nevertheless, there are researchers who believe that it would be easier to turn back the aging through modifications in EpigenomeThe field is a set of molecules that They change the way of covering our genes or shutdown. The genes do not change, it would be very difficult, but how our body reads them. This was investigated in animals, and some interesting results were achieved, but it would be very safe to guarantee that the same thing will happen in people.

On the other hand, there are scientists who used Yamanaka factors to turn back the aging. These are a series of proteins that can return an adult cage well differentiated into a state Pluripotent stem cellLike the embryo. Since they were discovered, they opened the door for research using stem cells without resorting to embryos. However, they were given other types of use. For example, they were used in Mouse brains Turn the age of their cells. They do not take into an embryonic state, but yes, they said very roughThey rejuvenate. The problem, again, is that we are talking about mice. We cannot know if they will work in public.

Telomeres cannot be absent

One of the greatest indicators of biological (non -chronological) aging TelomerThe field is a kind of protective coating, which is located at the ends of the chromosomes, so since they are separated, DNA is not lost. Only DNA telomere will be lost, which does not have the corresponding function outside Fill outThe field means that the shorter than telomeres, the more aging is a cell.

The enzyme called telomerase is currently known, which can help The spread of telomeresSo in a sense Could turn back the agingThe field is much being studied with the end Find cancer treatment; But, of course, as well as the elixir of youth that we crave people.

To live for more years, we will not need a transplant of organs. The biotechnology that Putin exalted in his speech will go to other ways.

So Putin and Xi Jinping are wrong?

We do not know exactly what the goal of the conversation between Putin and Xi Jinping would be. Perhaps it was something accidental. Or maybe not. It is clear that, although there are many scientists who are looking for how we could live for more years, the methods go far beyond the framework of the organ transplant. Almost in science fiction, we could see a transplant of the head to a younger body. But this was not the object of his conversation.

The only thing that is clear is that the presidents collected for this Beijing parade should be remembered is that there is something very bad for the durability of a person that he has a lot of power: War. Maybe they should start there.