Anti-aging: oxygen therapy increases telomere length by up to 20%

> Each patient was placed in a hyperbaric chamber for 90 minutes for five days a week over three months while breathing 100 per cent oxygen through a mask. The pressurised chamber allows more oxygen to be dissolved into the tissues and mimics a state of "hypoxia", or oxygen shortage, which is known to have regenerating effects.

If your breathing oxygen at a higher intra pulmonary pressure you have both higher concentration and higher absorption of oxygen, so how can it create a state of hypoxia?

Is it a typo and they mean hyperoxia? Or is it a typo and they mean a hypobaric chamber?

I also couldn't find an actual link to the paper?

Since telomeres are a ttl to protect against transcription errors accumulating and leading to cancer, will this actually reduce aging, or just shift the cause of death towards cancer?

I can totally buy into the idea that breathing a lot of oxygen can give you a significant temporary health benefit. But my understanding of the telomere length thing was that it's a vast oversimplification of the issues that build up with aging to just make it about them. And that a lot of people think just making them longer will cause cancer.

I am a proponent of the SENS approach.

Personally I view this work as psuedo-science. I flagged the other submission that had a more sensational headline.

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