How we can slow down our aging- Imperceptible signs of aging - Biological reasons of aging - Our breathing kills us - Antioxidants - protection against presenilation - Jean Clamon died in France in 1997 at the age of 122 years. She was the oldest (documentary registered) inhabitant of the world. She has outlived 17 presidents of France, has mourned over death of tsar Nikolay II and queen Victoria. She has given up fencing at the age of 85 years, and at the age of 100 years she has stopped bicycling. Could Jean Clamon live even longer? Maybe. - Siredziyo Idzumi died in Japan in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days. He could probably live a bit longer - but under what conditions? - In mountain village Sinhua in the Northern China almost all inhabitants live till age of 85 years and more. It is known that they die a natural death. No case of serious diseases has been registered. They explain it by the fact that they breathe fresh mountain air, eat food without chemical supplements and drink very pure spring water. Natural sources are accessible for them all the year round, they are surrounded by ancient woods in which there grow over 200 kinds of medicinal plants which they use as food supplements.
The majority of people want to live not simply for a long time,
but for a long time and a life of full value, instead of simply to exist
and pay off with pains, an immovability and dependence on associates
(and to be a burden to the relatives). Just it usually occurs in case of a long life.
Is the life prolongation connected with a place of residence or way of existence,
with what the person eats or does not eat ?
The secret of a long and normal life
The majority of gerontologists state that this secret consists in:
But we can undertake something to change other conditions in the required direction.
Process of aging begins already at the age of 20-30 years. But the majority of us
do not notice it till we shall cross a 40-years boundary.
And after it the process of aging becomes fast and obvious.
However aging is not an event but rather a process which can be eased,
slowed down, and sometimes stopped - and even turned back.
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Imperceptible signs of aging
If you are already over 40 and you have not noticed certain changes yet,
check up your sight and the factor of mental faculties.
The basic "imperceptible" changes are:
The normal process of aging can alter under effect of a disease.
Corporeal changes are connected with the age, but they are not necessarily accompanied
by health problems.
There is no common, chronologically precise schedule of aging.
Even inside one body different organs prosper or suffer to a different extent.
A person can die 10 years earlier his "term" in spite of the fact that all his organs,
with the exception of a sole one, work normally. The human body is a system,
and we depend on its weakest link even if it is a trivial filter or a primitive valve.
Plural and essential influence of each organ on all others makes
aging hopelessly irreversible and imperceptibly increasing.
The process of aging is affected by many factors, such as genes, diseases,
an exhaustion, stresses and griefs, an environment, lifestyle and
directions of our consciousness.
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Biological reasons of aging
Scientists allocate 4 basic specific biological reasons of aging:
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Our breathing kills us
We cannot do without oxygen. It participates in many thousands of chemical
reactions at a cellular level. Almost each of 60-100 billions of cells of our body
produces energy at the expense of energy of oxidation.
But therewith inevitably appear molecules of the transformed oxygen,
(which have no only one electron in the external orbit) -
extremely active free radicals.
Basically free radicals are formed in our body by 4 ways:
Because of their over-activity free radicals very easily form compounds with
other molecules of any cells of our body which appear nearby from them.
The damaged molecules provoke chains of other chemical reactions. Thus, even the
only free radical can become a reason of a large number of cellular disorders.
Free radicals destroy everything around them - enzymes, other endocellular proteins
but that is worse - fragile lipid membranes surrounding a cell.
However it is even worse that they destroy the nuclear membranes containing
the information about the cell DNA. This menacing process is known as lipid oxidation.
It can remain unnoticed for a long time and can lead to mutations (cancer) and cell death.
Each cell is subject to up to 10000 oxygen "impacts" per second.
If our organism had no protection against free radicals, it would be
killed with the only molecule of a free radical! That is we would be killed
with our inhalation of oxygen from air. We would turn to a pile of cellular
ruins in a short period of time.
There certainly exist some protection but it is not always sufficient -
especially in the modern polluted world.
There have been already revealed over 100 diseases, which original cause are
free radicals. Protection against free radicals are neutralizers of free
radicals known as antioxidants.
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Antioxidants - protection against presenilation
If antioxidants cannot clear the organism of free radicals, the caused damage
is shown as different signs of aging and diseases. When the level of free radicals
grows (especially in case of infectious diseases and long exposure to the sun,
in harmful manufacture, etc.), the need of an organism for additional antioxidants
increases as well. For example, smokers require twice - thrice more vitamin C than
non-smokers to support the same level of antioxidants in blood. Antioxidants are our
protection against the accelerated aging.
Natural antioxidants of our body include enzymes(dismutaz superoxide - DSO),
small molecules produced by our cells (glutathione), and some vitamins.
The majority of diets includes vitamins C and E, provitamin A and selenium.
For more detailed information see pages Vitamins and amino acids and
Minerals and microelements
Vitamina and Amino acids and
Minerals and Microelements
Unfortunately, with the years (usually after the age of 28-30 years)
the amount of slags in our intestines is such, that the most part of vitamins
and microcells from food simply is not perceived. Special cleaning diets or
food supplements of complex action are necessary, namely:
Tea Sun-Way (China) On materials: Harry ALDER - Practical guidance on life prolongation. Saint-Petersburg: "Peter", 2001 - 256 ps. Page Top Home Page Some Products for Diets The composition and translation from Russian: Vitaly Eremenko. |