The secret of eternal youth from the digger

Under the earth, in eternal darkness, lives a creature that can tell us how to live, almost never aging. A naked digger, somewhat similar to a rat or a mole, but, nevertheless, neither one nor the other, can be the key to longevity.

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The diggers live underground in colonies. Their habitat is Africa. Technologists studying the problem of prolonging human life have paid attention to these bald animals. They differ in that they have several superpowers at once.

First, they can survive without oxygen for up to 18 minutes. Secondly, the likelihood of developing cancer in them is reduced to almost zero. Thirdly, contrary to the expectations of scientists that diggers would not live more than six years outside the wild, they survived and even crossed the line of thirty years.

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Biologists at a Google-sponsored company have found that the older diggers get, oddly enough, they are less likely to die (while the opposite is true for any other mammal).

“This is the most amazing result I have ever received,” says one of the scientists. “It goes against everything we know about mammals.”

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The most natural habitat for a digger is the eternal night underground. That’s how nature intended. Therefore, for many people, attempts to prolong human life with the help of non-natural means – science and technology – are associated with the fear that this only moves us away from nature and the truth that makes us human, the truth that says that our life must end, because or otherwise.

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“I think that people have begun to appreciate life more, because we all understand more clearly how short it is. After all, this is what makes us human – we know and accept the fact that we are not eternal. It is this awareness that drives us, makes us live the fullest and brightest life possible.

Author: Anastasia Manko