How did a Russian scientist possibly avoid the flu for two years and obtain energy for longer work hours?

Anatoli Brouchkov, Russian chemist and geocryology department head at Moscow State University, vouches for the benefits of giving himself a dose of a 3.5-million-year-old bacteria discovered in the Siberian permafrost and existing a million years before the first humans evolved.

Known as Bacillus F, the ancient bacteria is found in the Sakha Republic, the largest Siberian region, and was discovered in 2009 somewhere called Mammoth Mountain. Dubbed “elixir of youth,” it is currently being used on mice and human blood cell experiments.

But Brouchkov has gone ahead and tried the bacteria on himself for testing.

“I started to work longer, I've never had a flu for the last two years,” he recalled, saying he became interested in trying the inactivated bacterial culture after successful runs of the bacteria on mice and fruit flies.

The scientist explained the permafrost is thawing and that the bacteria are getting into the environment and water.

“[S]o the local population, the Yakut people, in fact, for a long time are getting these cells with water, and even seem to live longer than some other nations,” Brouchkov said, dismissing any potential danger of injecting the bacteria into his system.

He emphasized, however, that he cannot “professionally” illustrate the effects on him since it was not strictly a scientific experiment. The bacteria, too, is not yet ready to be marketed given the need for further studies and questions such as how it prevents aging, what keeps it alive, the mechanisms at play, and how humans can benefit from it.

Early findings on Bacillus F show certain miracle properties that can boost fertility. In one test, the bacteria appeared to assist in plants’ self-healing, while in another, female mice were able to conceive after their reproductive processes had already shut down.

Epidemiologist Viktor Chernyavsky considered Bacillus F’s discovery a “scientific sensation,” saying the bacteria delivers bio-active substances in its lifetime, activating the immunity of experimental animals.