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Imagine spending 100 days underwater and coming out feeling younger! That’s exactly what happened to a man who volunteered for a wild science experiment. Living in a specially designed underwater habitat, he breathed in slightly different air and experienced lower pressure than we do on land. The result? His biological age actually reversed—his body showed signs of being younger than when he started. The experiment wasn’t just a cool sci-fi moment; it could lead to groundbreaking health discoveries.   Credit: WPLG Local 10 / YouTube Dr. Deep Sea Dituri / YouTube Inside Edition / YouTube Classroom Under the Sea / YouTube KTVB / YouTube European Space Agency, ESA / YouTube Novespace / YouTube TEDx Talks / YouTube SpaceX / YouTube wocomoDOCS / YouTube blm95tehe / Reddit Animation is created by Bright Side.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV   Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en   Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me

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00:00So, think about it, what was the weirdest thing you've ever done for work?

00:04Printing hundreds of pages of useless reports or unknotting holiday lights?

00:09Well, there's a scientist out there who spent 100 days below the surface of the Atlantic

00:14Ocean.

00:15Dr. Joseph Dieterich, or rather, Dr. Deep Sea, as he likes to call himself, was living

00:20underwater as part of Project Neptune 100.

00:24This project is a long-term study of how compression affects humans, both physiologically and

00:29psychologically.

00:30Dr. Deep Sea, who's a biomedical engineer and University of South Florida associate

00:36professor, went under the sea to see if increased pressure can help humans live longer and prevent

00:42health problems that come with old age.

00:45From day one of the mission, Dr. Dieterich was actively sharing what was going on in

00:50his social networks.

00:52He mentioned that another important goal for him was to inspire scientists from different

00:56generations to study life undersea.

01:00After 74 days of the mission, he officially set a new Guinness World Record for the longest

01:05time living in an underwater fixed habitat.

01:09But he didn't just jump out on the surface after it and stayed the planned 100 days.

01:15The scientist definitely wasn't bored for those 14 weeks.

01:18He collected data, collaborated with other researchers, virtually taught a biomedical

01:23engineering course at his university, and reached out to thousands of students from

01:2715 countries online.

01:30Once the mission was over, Dr. Dieterich was greeted by his family and friends, the media,

01:35and many fans who were following his work online.

01:38Dr. Deep Sea is now 55 years old, and he claims that living underwater has really made him

01:44feel 10 years younger.

01:46The doctors who greeted him, and the results of the tests they have so far, prove the de-aging

01:51effect.

01:52Our hero has some improvement in his sleep and metabolism.

01:55He also noted that his body had shrunk a half an inch.

01:59Wow, 2,300 more days and he'd be a foot shorter.

02:03Maybe.

02:04Probably not.

02:05If you want to try a light version of what Dr. Deep Sea has gone through, you have two

02:10options.

02:11The first option is hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

02:14You go inside a special chamber where the air pressure is higher than normal.

02:18It helps more oxygen get inside your lungs.

02:21It has a healing effect on your body.

02:23Too much oxygen can be a bad thing, though, so these chambers must follow strict regulations.

02:29You can also stay in the exact same place where Dr. Dieterich lived.

02:33It's called Jules Undersea Lodge, after Jules Verne, the author of 20,000 Leagues Under

02:39the Sea.

02:40It's a two-bedroom apartment located 30 feet below the surface of a lagoon in Key Largo,

02:45Florida.

02:46Don't worry, your prospective home won't sail away.

02:49It's attached to the seabed by leg structures.

02:52There are three windows with a direct ocean view and some marine life outside.

02:57A lot of it.

02:58There's also a command center that keeps oxygen, water, and power levels under control.

03:03An air conditioner keeps the temperature comfortable.

03:06And a chef dives in to cook meals for the guests upon request.

03:10You can't just dive in to see if they have a spare room, though.

03:13There's some paperwork involved for each guest.

03:16And you'll have to put on some gear and leave it in the wet room before you get into

03:20the nice and comfortable apartment.

03:23As for Dr. Dieterich, he doesn't plan to stop his studies of how humans can survive

03:28in isolated environments.

03:29He's going to take a flight on a modified airliner where you can experience zero gravity

03:35multiple times.

03:36Something not for the weak of stomach.

03:38It's the next step to his dream of becoming a civilian astronaut and traveling into space

03:43by 2026.

03:45Dr. Deepse wasn't the first scientist to stay alone in an unusual setting for research

03:51purposes.

03:52Italian sociologist Maurizio Montalbini had spent a total of two years and eight months

03:57in caves to see how the human mind and body would cope with complete isolation.

04:02He started his experiments in the 1980s.

04:05At the end of 1986, he entered a cave in the Apennine Mountains near Acana in Italy.

04:11He would only get back on the surface 210 days later, which made him the world record

04:16breaker for spending the longest in complete isolation at that time.

04:21Montalbini survived on a high-calorie diet of powdered foods and pills, much like those

04:26that astronauts use on space flights.

04:29Scientists monitored his health using special tools from the outside of the cave.

04:34Maurizio would later break his own record, and he shared that the only way to do it was

04:39to make a friend of solitude instead of fighting it.

04:42He did his experiments in collaboration with NASA and universities around the world and

04:47proved that isolation affects time perception and sleep.

04:52An interior designer from Ancona was so inspired by the experiments that she volunteered to

04:57take part in a similar one herself in 1989.

05:01Stefania Folini spent four months in an underground room 30 feet down in the Loth Cave in New

05:07Mexico.

05:09The experiment was on circadian rhythms, those 24-hour cycles that are part of your body's

05:14internal clock.

05:15Stefania had no natural clues on what time or day it was.

05:20Soon enough, she stayed awake for more than 20 hours and slept for 10 hours at a time.

05:25So her biological clock changed into a 48-hour day cycle.

05:30She stayed entertained down there, thanks to a guitar, a computer, two friendly mice,

05:35some frogs, and some grasshoppers.

05:38She decorated the cave with cutouts from cardboard when she got bored and did judo to stay strong

05:43and flexible.

05:44Once the experiment was over, the scientist who greeted Stefania asked her to guess what

05:49day it was.

05:51She felt like it was the middle of March.

05:53But in reality, she went out of the cave on May 22, so she lost the perception of time

05:59and 17 pounds.

06:01Her meals were super spread out because of her new regime, and because she mostly ate

06:06beans and rice, she had a shortage of vitamin D.

06:10You know that feeling when your parents tell you something all the time, and you wish you

06:14could prove them wrong?

06:16Well, it drove Dr. Donald Unger into an unusual scientific experiment.

06:21He cracked the knuckles on his left hand twice a day for over 50 years.

06:25He didn't get any terrible health conditions, unlike what his mother told him.

06:30Of course, that evidence can't be enough to prove or disprove this common belief, but

06:34there are other studies that showed the same results.

06:38Regine Greaves, a biologist from British Columbia, Canada, decided to ignore the wisdom we all

06:44know, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite, and let bedbugs bite her, around 180,000

06:50times, all for science.

06:53She did it to test and find the most effective compounds to attract and trap bedbugs.

06:59Once those little unwelcome guests get inside your building, making them leave can be tricky

07:04and cost a lot.

07:05The biologist, together with her team, decided to see if baiting traps with pheromones could

07:11help lure the bugs and detect their gatherings before they multiply.

07:15They were missing one puzzle piece – the compound that bedbugs use to determine that

07:19a particular habitat is a safe place for them to settle.

07:23And that's how Greaves became bait for bedbugs.

07:27Her team managed to find that the compound they were looking for was histamine, which

07:31humans produce during immune responses.

07:34The researchers believe this means they can produce really cheap chemical traps for those

07:39little pests.

07:40Dr. Kevin Warwick, former professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, became the world's

07:47first real cyborg.

07:49He connected his own nervous system to a computer to see how technology can change healthcare.

07:55He implanted a device in his left arm to transmit his own neural signals to a robotic

08:00hand and control it.

08:02The scientist believes implants are the ideal solution for people with neurological problems,

08:07as they can control objects just by thinking about moving.

08:11And it doesn't have to be only about treatment.

08:14This tech can help all humans open up a huge potential if we link up the human brain to

08:19a computer or AI system.

08:22That's it for today!

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