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Probiotics, include varieties of various bacteria naturally found in the bowel. These include acidophilus, bifidus and rhamnosus. When functioning well the bowel contains large amounts of these bacteria. In fact, the majority of the stool is made up of these bacteria.

These friendly bacteria can be supplemented to some extent by taking yoghurt; however, a supplement will always contain many more bacteria than yoghurt will.

Bio Multi-flora contains 3.5 billion organisms per capsule.

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Many, if not most, people die eventually of an infection which gets hold because we are weakened for some reason. Pneumonia is common. It is important for longevity that we can deal with such infections effectively as well as other immune system challenges such as autoimmune diseases.

Most drug companies have cut back on antibiotic research because it is not cost effective for them. They spend fortunes to develop an antibiotic, then the microbes jolly well adapt to it! Conventional drug companies also have little idea how to deal effectively with autoimmune diseases.

Some smaller biotech companies, however, are quickly developing very effective approaches to dealing with immune system problems.

The "Therapeutic Antibody" Approach

Simon Moroney, CEO of MorphoSys, has a library of 12 billion human antibodies, which provides the company with valuable data to help them to use simple building blocks to fight disease.

Antibodies are the weapons our defensive white blood cells use to fight infection and disease. Sometimes, however, the white cells do not produce enough of the right type of antibodies to cure us. Morphosys has worked out how to create antibodies in a Lego-like fashion as well as how to deliver them to specific targets: such as to pathogenic cells (bacteria or viruses); or to deal with auto-immune diseases, such as many cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, some thyroid diseases and lupus.

This therapeutic antibody approach is currently hot medicine.

It holds tremendous promise for longevity as it will be:

• Effective
• Quick to construct a closely targeted agent, and
• Will have few side effects

It will be interesting to see whether existing drug companies can take over companies like MorphoSys and keep up their ‘business as usual’; or whether the smaller companies’ size is a big advantage to them in this rapidly growing field of biotechnology. Either way, this is great medicine on the horizon for those interested in longevity.

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Nanobot Tasks

Some of these will be:

• Delivering drugs to precise locations – for example, direct to disease locations, rather than in the blood stream. Treatment will be more accurate and have fewer side-effects and so make long life more likely.
• Docking with pathogenic cells to disable them. For example, a previous post looked at treatment of cancer cells by using nanobots combined with a protein cell to dock with the cancer. The cancer cells would then be drawn to the body surface with magnetism and destroyed.
• Micro surgery. For example, nanobots will be directed into the eyeball to carry out repairs without any incision being necessary.

Advantages of Nanobots For Long Life

The advantages of nanobots over conventional surgery will be huge. They include:

• Reducing infections. Opening up the skin causes infections – this is why hospital is such a dangerous place to be. By avoiding cutting, infections are dramatically reduced.
• Reducing cost. Because there are no, or fewer, open wounds, the chance of infection is much smaller. Expensive clean-room techniques and extreme infection control will just be unnecessary.
• Reduced mortality. In other words, you will be more likely to survive an operation. The shock will be less; recovery faster as well as infection being much less likely, as mentioned.

Powering Nanobots

Robots have already been used in the gut; and moving them through presents no problem as the gut’s natural peristalsis does the job. However, to move a nanobot around out side the gut presents the problem of how to steer it.

Magnetism

One answer is to use magnetism. This will be satisfactory in some cases; and the magnetic fields are readily available in hospitals already – in MRI scanners.

Magnetism is a little crude however.

Pizo-electricity

Another method which is being developed is to use pizo-electricity – the minute electric current produced by crystals in the presence of an electric charge. This will be harnessed and fed to flagellae – flailing corkscrew-like arms, which can be used for propulsion. This is how bacteria move.

Chemotaxis

A third way to move nanobots will be by using chemotaxis – by getting the nanobots to follow a chemical gradient. Then, by introducing chemicals, the bots could be steered.

Future Life Is Long – And Will Be longer

Longer life is already with us. Every decade the average lifespan is increasing by several years.

Nanobots will certainly help to ensure that this process continues. In 10-20 years many surgical operations will be being carried out completely internally. There will be no external surgery, minimal trauma, minimal side effects, fewer drugs used and a rapid recovery.

As the technology improves the changes will be incremental, producing surges of medical advancement which will probably stagger many of us within one or two decades.

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Having attached the magnetic nanoparticles, a magnet applied at the skin surface attracts the cancer cells to the skin surface. In this position it is much easier to deal with them in a safe way.

The trick used with the magnetised nanoparticles follows a lock-and-key type of approach.

The ‘lock’ is a cell receptor, a sort of docking structure on the outside of every cell into which only certain ‘key’ proteins will fit. Each molecule of the appropriate ‘key’ protein has a magnetised nanoparticle fused to it, so it carries the magnetic charge directly to the cancer cell.

Once the protein has docked firmly with the cancer cell’s receptor, the cancer is vulnerable to the magnetic force the medics then use.

Other Uses Of The Technique

This same technique could potentially be used with any pathogens – such as bacteria or viruses. The only requirement would be to identify a unique receptor on the cell wall of the pathogen, and fuse the nanoparticle with a protein which targets that receptor.

In years to come such medicine will be commonplace, greatly reducing the need for damaging drugs and greatly reducing side-effects and treatment risks for the patient.

More information on Georgia Tech’s site

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