L-Carnosine antiaging antioxidant health & beauty treatment

It started with the work in Australia. They wanted to see the effects of L-Carnosine on cultured human cells. What they did know were the results of decades of research on human cells and the well-defined pattern in the growth, development and aging of them, referred to as the “Hayflick Phenomenon”. Placed in a growth vat with a fluid (medium) rich in essential nutrients, cells from young donors will quickly begin to reproduce, forming colonies, which fill the vat – and then stop reproducing, to prevent starving themselves out. If half of these cells are removed from the container, the remaining cells will begin growing again to fill their environment.

But this process only goes on so far. At each round of division, the cells are aging or becoming “senescent”. The changes are subtle but as time goes on it becomes more and more obvious that something is very wrong with the cells. They lose their shape and begin to vary wildly in size, then fill up with granular material, they stop forming continuous colonies, losing their even, patterned, regular spacing and begin breaking apart, with individual cells drifting off on their own. Senescent cells stop producing the right proteins from their DNA, losing the functions for which they were designed...the same process which happens in skin aging and wrinkling. On the whole, the appearance of the cell culture assumes an unhealthy looking texture. Finally, after about 60 divisions, the cells will stop reproducing and slide into a sort of twilight zone, alive but inactive…simply waiting for death.

These are the known or given facts of the studies. Now here is what happened. They raised lung and skin cells in one of two standard cell culture mediums. Then they kept half of the cells in the original medium, and transferred half to the same medium supplemented with L-Carnosine. The results were clear, simple and astonishing! The cells in L-Carnosine not only had from 1 to 7 more population doublings, the cells themselves lived up to two thirds longer than the standard medium cells! L-Carnosine treated cells had broken the Hayflick limit and left it in the dust!

In the whole person it would be like taking someone like Jean Calmet who lived until 122 being the standard and having her sister in the L-Carnosine group, surviving until 200 years old!

This is great...but the best news is that adding L-Carnosine to the cell medium made the cells younger! Scientists described the results as “striking effects on the cell morphology" (shape and structure). The cells raised in L-Carnosine-supplemented medium looked the same as they did when they were young even over time, yet the ones raised in the regular medium got old, blotchy , irregular and broke apart into scattered islands of twisted debris.

It gets better…to take things one step further, the scientists took the old, pooped-out cells from the standard medium and put them into the L-Carnosine supplemented medium, and they reversed this process by taking the L-Carnosine supplemented cells and putting them in ordinary medium. Well, the first part is not too hard to understand, the once L-Carnosine-supplemented cells rapidly degenerated into what would be their normal state, but the neatest part is that the “old” cells from the normal medium were definitely made younger again by the L-Carnosine bath!!!!! The researchers are quoted “These cells showed a remarkable rejuvenation, with regard to their morphology…..and finally reached ages significantly greater than the control culture from which they were derived.”

Scientific establishments have subsequently repeated, confirmed and expanded on the original results. They proceeded to show that they could take regular cells, watch them age, put them in the L-Carnosine bath, watch them grow younger and switch them back and watch them age again. They propose that L-Carnosine is integral to cellular organization and function, therefore optimizing longevity.