Let's imagine that the process of conscious longevity is also a sport, and let's compete in life expectancy.
Modern man lives on average 60 - 80 years. It seems that he has just begun to live, and it’s already time to go to eternal rest. It’s a shame, but even the ancient Pelasgian Greeks believed that when a person dies at 70, he dies in childhood, and, according to legend, they themselves lived for more than 200 years. Nobody argues that a healthy lifestyle is good, but for many it is a rather boring activity and they prefer to get sick, grow old, die, but not strain themselves. What if, in order to get carried away with this “boring” activity, you use such a wonderful incentive as sports excitement?
Train your reserves and LIVE for at least 200 years
There are all sorts of sports, appropriate training and, please, excellent results. So let’s imagine that the process of conscious longevity is also a sport, and let’s compete in life expectancy. If you lived to be 80, you can congratulate yourself on your first personal record. Years of special training were not in vain.
You feel young, cheerful, full of energy and strength. And again, daily simple workouts, which have long become a part of life and bring incomparable pleasure. Here you are 90 years old - an age that is considered senile, but you still have good memory, vision, hearing, young elastic skin, mobile joints, strong muscles, and a slender figure.
And finally, the joke that it’s hard to live only the first 100 years is not a joke, but a reality, but unlike other centenarians who are ready to die at any moment, you are perfectly prepared for life.
Sport is, first of all, training, but what to train in this case? In the process of aging, the reserve capacity of all our organs and systems diminishes every year. Here is the answer: if you don’t want to grow old, train your reserves . To train means to use regularly, and they are used primarily when something is missing. The body may lack food, water, oxygen, and information. Their conscious, artificial limitation stimulates the use of reserve capabilities, i.e. their training. Let's call this process briefly: reserve training. Let's see what exercises can be used for this purpose.
Exercise 1 – dosed fasting
Let's limit the intake of food and get an excellent method of restoring the body, known since ancient times - fasting . This is a temporary, voluntary, complete refusal of food. The purpose of such fasting is the transition to internal nutrition, i.e. use of reserves. This is only possible under the condition of a immediate, complete cessation of power. Only water, and as pure as possible. A glass of juice, for example, drunk during this period, interferes with the transition to internal nutrition, blocks the mechanisms of balanced consumption of reserves, and nothing good comes of it.
Research results indicate that with complete short-term fasting, eating from one’s own reserves fully satisfies all the body’s needs and is even more complete than regular nutrition. All the necessary substances have already been absorbed at one time, “sorted out” and now for further participation in metabolism they do not require the expenditure of a considerable amount of energy and time.
You can read about how to fast and eat properly in popular books by famous fasting experts and nutritionists. One of the reference books could be the book “The Miracle of Fasting” by Paul Brague. Here's what he wrote about this:
“Every week, without skipping a beat, I do a 24- or 36-hour fast. In addition, I fast for 7-10 days four times a year. Over the years, when I follow this schedule and keep myself in excellent condition, I live like a dynamo come to life. My day is busier than some people's year. I have unlimited energy for work and play. I am never tired, I am never sleepy. I am constantly active both mentally and physically. I have enough time and energy for everything.”
This famous American died at the age of 95 while doing… surfing, a difficult and dangerous sport. According to the pathologist's conclusion, his organs and blood vessels were in excellent condition.
Exercise 2 – “dry” fasting
Now let's see what happens during the so-called dry fasting, when we stop not only eating, but also drinking . Water makes up about 70% of the body, it comes with drinking and as part of food, but in addition, about 400 ml per day is formed internally as a result of fat oxidation. During “dry” fasting, the amount of this metabolic water increases significantly and satisfies the body’s needs for some time.
Research by the physiologist Adolf showed that at rest at a comfortable temperature a person can not drink for up to 10 days . After the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a boy was found buried under the rubble. He remained alive, although he did not eat or drink for 13 days.
With “dry” fasting, our body becomes like such an amazing creation of nature as a camel, which can wander through the desert without food or water until it uses up its reserves - a hump with reserves of fat. Our “hump” is excess fat, atheroma, atherosclerotic plaques in blood vessels and other “garbage” that the body is unable to remove under normal conditions.
According to some data, the regenerating and cleansing effect of dry fasting is 2-3 times higher than that of water fasting. The author tested this on himself, and it seems that this is indeed the case. Once a week, I began to declare a 36-hour “dry” fast for the aging process (I started with a 24-hour fast on the water), and after each of them I felt great: I felt a surge of energy and strength, memory improved, vision, hearing, smell, taste became sharper, performance increases.
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Let’s call this exercise “Camel-36” and let’s do the calculations: 4 times a month for 36 hours is 6 days of “dry” fasting, which is equal in effectiveness to approximately 15 days of fasting with water. It turns out that for half a month the body is in a state of cleansing and restoration. The aging process slows down.
Microbiota
Prebiotics, dietary fiber, are the factors that optimize the microbiota and slow down aging. Probiotics can be obtained from garlic, onions, bananas, black currants, plums, and beets.
So, in order to slow down the aging process of our body as much as possible, we need very simple things:
- Calorie restriction
- Balance of nutrients, nutrients in food
- Regulation of fructose, lactose and sucrose
- Eating the right fats, including olive oil
- More greens, berries and fruits
- Reducing red meat consumption (no more than 70 g per day)
- Reduction of stress conditions
- Fighting inflammatory processes
- Taking probiotics
- Physical exercise
A radical revision of the nutrition system, based on research into the lifestyles of centenarians around the world. To live long and well, you need to eat right!
What are Blue Zones?
When scientists identified the best places to explore, they outlined them in blue ink on a map. This is how the name “blue zones” came about. By 2009 there were five. For example, the list included the Greek island of Ikaria, which has one of the world's lowest midlife mortality rates and the lowest incidence of dementia. The Japanese island of Okinawa is the largest island in the subtropical archipelago with the world's largest number of long-lived women. Men who live to be a hundred years old predominate in the province of Ogliastra on the island of Sardinia. Residents of Loma Linda, California, are famous for living ten years longer than the average American while maintaining excellent health. The Nicoya Peninsula in Central America has the lowest midlife mortality rate and the second highest concentration of long-living men. These people shared their experiences, which formed the basis of the book.
How do centenarians eat?
Residents of the Blue Zones not only eat to live, but also enjoy food as much as other people. We can adapt Blue Zones eating habits to our lifestyle by replacing some unhealthy foods with those that long-lived people eat.
This is by no means a restrictive diet. You need to eat the best you can.
Fewer calories
First of all, you need to take care of the number of calories. Residents of the Blue Zones eat lower calorie foods than we do. Science confirms that calorie restriction not only helps you lose weight, but also slows down the aging process.
More plant foods
We need to ensure that our diet contains 95% plant-based products. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends eating 46 to 56 grams of protein per day. All nine essential amino acids are found in meat, eggs and some plant foods. But meat and eggs increase cholesterol levels, which contributes to the development of cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
Residents of four of the five Blue Zones eat meat, but relatively rarely. Consultant Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health says: "Meat is like radiation: we don't know what the safe dose is." Buettner's team's research found that 30-year-old vegetarians in California were likely to live eight years longer than meat eaters of the same age.
You don't have to immediately give up meat and switch to peas. But if you want to live longer, limit animal proteins to one small portion per day. Even better, eat cooked meat no more than twice a week in portions no larger than 60 grams. Eggs - no more than three per week.
Exercise 3 – oxygen starvation
With a lack of oxygen, hypoxia occurs, i.e. oxygen starvation. A complete lack of oxygen leads to irreversible changes and death, and time is counted in minutes and seconds. Due to such a severe dependence, the body has a powerful antihypoxic system. It provides a response to both short-term and long-term oxygen starvation.
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- During short-term hypoxia, the heart begins to beat faster and more powerfully, pumping more blood; the reserve amount of blood comes from the blood “depot” - the spleen; the blood vessels of the brain, heart, and lungs—vital organs that are most sensitive to lack of oxygen—dilate; the level of hormones of the adrenal cortex increases, etc.
- With prolonged hypoxia , for example, high in the mountains, the mass of lung tissue increases, new capillaries are formed in all organs and tissues, the number of red blood cells increases, the myoglobin content (oxygen reserve in muscles) increases, oxygen-free energy exchange is activated, hormone production is enhanced, and the number of active mitochondria increases per unit cell mass, i.e. The overall energy level increases.
During the aging process, everything happens exactly the opposite: energy levels drop, blood supply to organs deteriorates, hormone production decreases, etc., so judge for yourself how important training the antihypoxic system is for a long-liver.
Artificial hypoxia can be achieved in different ways. The most accessible is the so-called ventilation hypoxia - breathing exercises with reduced ventilation of the lungs. In the literature you can find a large number of breathing systems with a delay in inhalation, exhalation, slow exhalation, etc. All of them will be effective because they provide short-term hypoxia and train the antihypoxic system.
An example is the Indian breathing exercise “kevala-kumbhaka,” which means “absolutely calm pause.” The exercise involves completely stopping breathing while the muscles are as relaxed as possible. The pause lasts as long as you can stand it and is repeated several times a day.
Less accessible, but more effective training of the antihypoxic system is exogenous hypoxia . It occurs due to a decrease in the so-called partial pressure of oxygen during prolonged exposure to high altitude conditions. The effect is described above, but it takes at least 3-4 weeks to achieve it.
Exercise 4 – information starvation
With regard to information, nature has provided for natural periodic information starvation in the form of sleep . During sleep, the flow of information from the outside is as limited as possible: we do not see, hear, smell or touch the skin, and our taste buds rest. We are not talking about superficial, but about deep, full sleep. The conditions for it are a darkened room with good ventilation and sound insulation, comfortable temperature and humidity, and a comfortable bed.
A sign of normal sleep is good health and mood after waking up. You may ask, what do reserves have to do with it? The fact is that during sleep the brain is not at all inactive. There are two phases of sleep – slow and fast sleep. It has been established that during the REM sleep phase, the activity of nerve cells in most parts of the brain increases, reaching the level of wakefulness. The function of the brain is to process, store and transmit information, so its active work while limiting external information indicates that backup information stored in memory is being processed. You sleep, and the brain continues to solve your problems, drawing on all the previously accumulated experience. It’s not for nothing that they say: “the morning is wiser than the evening.” Many great discoveries have been made in dreams.
A person has another need associated with limiting external information - the need to periodically be alone. Solitude is also a type of information starvation. A person is a powerful irritant for a person, requiring constant attention and tension. Lack of opportunity to be alone can lead to mental disorders.
If you combine all four exercises, it turns out that the ideal means of rejuvenation is long sleep high in the mountains, because during sleep we do not eat or drink.
Do you know how the “ninja” – the medieval Japanese “special forces” – developed their phenomenal abilities? They learned methods of self-improvement and longevity from the hermit monks “Yamabushi”. This is the most mysterious sect that has ever existed in Japan. They passed on their secrets by word of mouth and were forbidden to write them down. And what do you think the word “yamabushi” means? Nothing more than “sleeping in the mountains.” Here's one of their best-kept secrets - it's in their name.
Most of the high-altitude resorts of the CIS are not particularly popular now, and this is completely in vain: their rejuvenation effect cannot be replaced by anything.
All the methods that we have considered are based on the fact that the body does not receive enough of something from the outside, but there is less money in our wallet not only when we do not receive enough of it, but also when we spend heavily. Thus, we can force the body to use its reserves through periodic increased work of individual organs and systems.
The following reserve training exercises are based on artificial hyperfunction. They are highlighted rather arbitrarily, because the body is a single whole and training one system invariably activates to one degree or another all the others.
Health and longevity
Health and longevity. These topics concern almost every person.
Here on the site my personal experience in self-healing is presented.
I had to go a long way to transform a sick and fat thirty-year-old man into a healthy and fit young man of fifty-five. (For more details, see the “About the Author” page).
I started running this site when I turned 55, in the spring of 2014.
Over time, we have formed an initiative group of like-minded people interested in life extension issues, which includes several scientists.
On this site, those who would like to improve their health, normalize weight and live an active and disease-free life as long as possible will find material for themselves.
When writing my articles, I always use scientific data and provide links to studies.
The reader will find here a lot of unusual and useful scientifically based information that may change your views and attitude towards your own health and allow you to live a long, interesting life.
You will learn why natural honey is a harmful product and why drinking milk is harmful. (All words, phrases and article titles highlighted in color are active. By clicking on them, you will be taken to the page with the corresponding article). You will learn how to quickly lose weight, how to stop being offended and how to stop worrying. Learn to use geroprotectors - drugs that slow down aging.
Surely you think that fatty foods shorten your life, and coffee is a harmful drink that increases blood pressure. This is a wrong point of view.
Have you been taught since childhood that bread is everything, and meat is a healthy and tasty food? In reality, everything is different.
Find out how protein intake affects life expectancy!
Change your idea of which oils are healthy and which are harmful!
There are also delicious ways to prolong life, such as dark chocolate!
I would like this site to increase the medical literacy of the population, so that people do not treat non-existent diseases, such as dysbiosis, do not use homeopathic preparations for treatment that do not contain a single molecule of active substance, so that they do not drink all the pharmaceutical vitamins and do not restore liver cells with the help of Essentiale Forte N, did not take calcium supplements to strengthen bones, because it does not make any sense other than making your wallet lighter.
In our country, healthcare is, unfortunately, a huge business project in which business comes first, and only then a little medicine.
It is not beneficial for the system for the patient to be healthy. Healthy people don't make money.
The goal of our healthcare is to treat you for as long as possible and as expensively as possible. An article was written on this topic: “Useless drugs. Miracles of Russian pharmacology."
For people suffering from non-insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes, our doctors prescribe insulin, which, if it does not kill them, then cripples them for life. The article “Insulin kills as much as it saves” was written as a warning.
Withering begins differently for everyone. This usually happens after forty. Diseases accumulate, quality of life decreases.
If you live the second half of your life not in survival mode, but fully, perhaps even more interesting than the first, then this will be a real second life!
Approaching the retirement milestone in full health, tempting prospects open up for a person! Postman Pechkin was right when he said: “I’m just starting to live, I’m retiring!”
Think for yourself - you don’t have to go to work, there’s a lot of free time! What scope for creativity! Moreover, they will pay some kind of pension! Live - I don’t want to! And in order to live an interesting life and do what you want, you need to take care of your health resources. So that the “battery” lasts for a long time.
The first half of our lives we studied, worked, gave back to our Motherland, reached some heights, raised children, and in the second half brilliant prospects open up to live for ourselves and for our own pleasure!
In the process of my evolution, I created a theory of a healthy life and active longevity, which I adhere to and which I would like to share with you.
Health and life expectancy depend on three components, on three images. It is a way of life, a way of thinking and a way of eating. In essence, this is human culture - physical, moral and consumer culture. I'm a materialist. I don’t study metaphysics or esotericism. I work only with the physical body.
By a healthy lifestyle I understand a form of our existence that is consciously aimed at actively promoting health, preventing and preventing diseases. This is creating a certain code of conduct for yourself to maintain the body in a healthy state.
This lifestyle is based on personal motivation to achieve life goals.
In my case, a healthy lifestyle serves the purpose of active longevity.
I am interested in testing for myself the capabilities of the human body, how long it can work without failures, and trying to live to at least a hundred years, maintaining the ability to work and clarity of thinking.
The concept of lifestyle is very multifaceted and includes our daily routine, physical activity during the day and its proper alternation with rest, giving up bad habits and much more. It is of great importance what kind of area we live in, what kind of air we breathe, what kind of water we drink.
Way of thinking. This is not only positive thinking, it is also mandatory resistance to stress, developing the skills to ignore irritating factors. Stress is a destructive force acting on the body, the mechanism of action of which we trigger ourselves.
And, since we launch it ourselves, we ourselves are able to turn it off.
Nothing is good or bad in itself. It all depends on your attitude to what is happening.
The world is neither good nor bad. He simply exists and is like this.
We ourselves give an emotional assessment to everything. And it is this assessment that determines our behavior. You need to accept the world as it is, and not try to remake it in your own way. Be yourself. Let others be different.
People don't have to live up to your expectations, just as you don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Worrying about anything is nothing more than a bad habit that you need to get rid of. We are engaged in a healthy lifestyle and have no use for bad habits.
In my diet, I include the entirety of what we eat, what we drink and in what quantity. A man is what he eats. Therefore, food should be fresh and varied. I'm not a proponent of diets. Any diet deprives food of variety.
In my opinion, there can be only one restriction in food - the amount of food eaten! Figuratively speaking, a person digs his own grave with a spoon and fork! We eat much more food than what we need to maintain normal functioning. All these excesses, coupled with insufficient physical activity, when the intake of calories prevails over their expenditure, form bellies and “life preservers” at the waist. Due to the heavy load that excess food gives, all organs of the digestive system suffer, wear out faster and fail.
Each individual image certainly has great significance for a person. But only the combination of all these components can lead to a healthy, fulfilling and long life.
Thus, a single correct diet will be ineffective if a person does not exercise and lives in constant stress.
Also, your sports activities will be of little use if you smoke, drink and are nervous.
Individually developed resistance to stress in the absence of physical activity and eating buns will not lead to anything good.
It is necessary to work comprehensively, simultaneously in three directions.
We eat right, burn off everything unnecessary on the treadmill or in the gym, get good sleep, and at the same time learn to withstand troubles, preventing us from destroying what we have gained. In addition to all of the above, we slow down the aging process with the help of geroprotector drugs.
Only this approach to yourself, in my opinion, can ensure health and longevity.
We will talk about all three images in more detail on the pages of this site.
Exercise 5 - muscle training
The function of a muscle cell is contraction. In its absence, the muscle fiber weakens and decreases in volume - the process of atrophy occurs. Muscles make up the bulk of our body weight, and if you want to preserve them, be kind enough to regularly strain each one. Walk, run, swim, dance, exercise - in general, do whatever you want, just move. You can move more or less, but a certain minimum range of movements that will tense each muscle must be performed regularly. This is the basis for stability not only of the musculoskeletal system, but also of all related systems, i.e. almost the entire body.
With the help of an experienced trainer, develop an individual complex that matches your physical capabilities and do not deviate from it throughout your life.
Exercise 6 – thermoregulatory training
Constant body temperature is ensured by two simultaneously occurring processes: heat production and heat transfer. You can train thermoregulation mechanisms by artificially changing the ambient temperature. When the temperature decreases (cold stimulation), heat production increases and heat transfer decreases. When the temperature increases (thermal stimulation), the opposite is true.
Methods of cold stimulation: wearing light clothing, air baths, washing the face and feet with cold water, dousing with cold water, cold showers, cold baths, walking barefoot, winter swimming, cryotherapy, etc.
Methods of thermal stimulation: sauna (Russian, Turkish, Finnish), hot shower, hot bath, sunbathing, hot wraps, burying in hot sand, swimming in thermal springs, etc.
More stringent methods are based on changing temperatures: contrast shower, cold pool after a bath, etc.
Example: residents of such a famous longevity center as the Hunza Valley bathe in ice-cold water even at 15 degrees below zero. Their 40-year-old women look like girls, at 60 they maintain a slim and graceful figure, and at 65 they still give birth to children.
Exercise 7 – intellectual training
The work of most of the brain is not subject to our will, but there is a part that can and should be trained. This is the cerebral cortex , to which we owe the presence of intelligence. Billions of nerve cells, whose function is to process and store information, must be regularly loaded with work. The body strictly adheres to the principle: “he who does not work, does not eat.” The non-working part is transferred to a starvation diet: blood access is limited and it ceases to receive sufficient oxygen and nutrients. The process of atrophy gradually begins. If you don’t overload your brain with work, then everything happens according to the scenario described above and senile dementia is guaranteed.
Therefore, a centenarian is an eternal student , he is doomed to study forever, constantly perceive and process new information. Who needs a 100-year-old senile? Without preserving intelligence, the process of longevity loses all meaning.
So, learn everything you can . Let computer courses be replaced by Japanese ikebana courses, and those in turn by foreign language courses, or one higher education replaced by another - who is capable of what, the main thing is without long breaks.
Healthy eating: how to eat right to live long and not get sick
In order to drive toxin-poisoned and thickened blood through clogged vessels and capillaries and push nutrients into the cell, the body increases blood pressure, which also does not have the best effect on us in the long term.
Or another example, bacteria have found refuge in the capillaries that feed the intervertebral discs. Their population and waste products clogged the blood supply, and the discs began to thin out, not receiving normal nutrition. And at a certain moment a person, experiencing colossal pain, can no longer straighten up. Doctors diagnose osteochondrosis. What happens if these bacteria suddenly become uncomfortable with the restoration of our body's acid-base balance and the nutrition that made them so happy all this time disappears? That's right, our immunity and their hunger will finally finish them off. The blood flow due to nutrition will restore the disc, the pain will go away and only memories will remain. An abstract question: who is to blame in this situation, the person himself or the bacteria?
But especially optimistic dreamers identify a cause-and-effect relationship between osteochondrosis and human upright posture. It’s just that animals in the wild eat what they’re supposed to and don’t get sick. And pets, eating together with humans, are forced to regularly visit the veterinarian with the same diseases as their owner. The same diet leads to the same diseases.
Although for most diseases, pets do not have enough life expectancy. How can one observe osteochondrosis in a beloved cat, if even in humans it occurs after thirty years of age? The resource and resilience put into our body by the creator should amaze the imagination. But how can you be amazed when you have such cause-and-effect relationships in your head?
Allergies from poisons and toxins
When eating the meat of killed animals, the human body is filled with cadaverine, in common language called cadaveric poison, since some of the under-digested animal protein molecules enter our body through the intestinal walls, where they are immediately attacked by the immune system. That is, a foreign protein, scientifically called an antigen, is attacked by our own antibodies.
And so we got an allergy, and this is already a pathology. Why an allergy, because the antigen is not honey, not citrus fruits, not carrots or strawberries, which poor and sick children are forbidden to eat. The only allergen or antigen is the meat we eat, in the form of a huge molecule of foreign animal protein that has penetrated into our body. And when the body, filled with meat allergen, receives additional energy in the form of fructose, fruit acid and living vitamins, it immediately begins cleansing and tries to remove all this foreign formation through the skin. And what does pollen have to do with it, even if all textbooks say that only a protein molecule can be an antigen?
In addition, cadaverine and a number of other toxic monoamines obtained by our body from meat, as a bonus, destroy our own cells and tissues. These dead dead tissues miraculously turn into pus, themselves becoming a source of deadly toxins, which are carried by the blood throughout the body and enter the bone marrow of the tubular bones, where this very blood is synthesized.
Having no desire to tolerate this chaos, the hematopoietic system begins to frantically produce leukocytes, lymphocytes, phagocytes, macrophages and other types of our fierce defenders, which, according to medicine, are the cause of leukemia. That is, it is not meat that causes leukemia, but the body’s reaction to it. Well, this is a completely different matter, because it is enough to prescribe a person another dose of chemotherapy to pacify the hematopoietic system and you can continue to enjoy the great variety of culinary meat and fish masterpieces created with such love, although they have nothing to do with health.
Or take, for example, migraine. If the doctor says that you ate something, then he will be close to the truth. Poisons and toxins formed in large quantities in our body thanks to animal proteins lead to inflammation of the lining of the brain, which is located between the brain itself and the skull, and as a result cause regular headaches. But I wonder, do animals in the wild also suffer from migraines?
According to official medicine, bronchial asthma is a disease of the bronchial tree of inflammatory immune-allergic nature, characterized by a chronic, paroxysmal course in the form of broncho-obstructive syndrome and suffocation. But in our opinion, in a simple way, you should not eat generators of toxins and antigens, and then life may still have time to get better.
What do you think happens when poisons and toxins poison the gum cells? That's right, the gums weaken and the teeth begin to loosen and fall out. Another excellent reason for the doctor to diagnose you with periodontal disease caused by age-related changes and give you a referral for the installation of further dentures to replace your own teeth. It is not surprising that the same age-related changes plague those who treat us.
Incorrectly established cause-and-effect relationships lead to a very specific result: for one it is the loss of teeth, and for another it is a highly paid labor feat. And here the number of names of certain diseases is not at all important, since the main reason for the vast majority of them is not age-related changes, but inadequate nutrition, which leads to diseases with age. And the more inadequate the diet, the faster the very age that doctors like to refer to will come, stuffing us with dentures like a chef with garlic and seasoning his dish with spices like chemicals from a pharmacy. Symbolic, isn't it?
Unpleasant smell
The smell from a person’s body and mouth indicates actual putrefactive processes occurring inside his body. Remember how babies smell, this is what a clean body smells like.
Perhaps someone paid attention to a strange circumstance: after brushing your teeth at night and rinsing your mouth with some kind of chemical, you will still have bad breath in the morning. When the stomach is empty, nothing prevents the putrid smell from the intestines from entering the oral cavity. This is especially noticeable in the morning, after a selfless night shift of corpse eaters. Our native symbiotic microflora would never allow this to happen.
Another factor in odor is the cleansing of the body through the tongue. The plaque that forms on it is nothing more than an attempt to get rid of the next portion of some harmful substance, which bacteria immediately begin to eat. And as we have already found out, they do not work without odor.
Diseases that cause death
It is imperative to say a few warm words about the products that cause the most common serious diseases of mankind, leading to death. This, oddly enough, is veal, beef, pork, turkey, chicken, rabbit, elk, bear and other meats. River and sea fish, as well as reptiles from underwater fauna, are slightly less toxic. You can also add eggs to the general list, there will be no mistake.
It remains to add that in this unequal struggle, the body cannot stand it: either something breaks in it, or parasites eat it from the inside. And it’s just a matter of time what happens first: Alzheimer’s, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, asthma, or parasites, doctors call it cancer. Such close and neighborly relations with corpse eaters and parasites turn out to be mortally dangerous for all of us. The prospect in any case is unworthy of the king of nature.
Let's look at just the 10 leading causes of death in high-income countries according to the World Health Organization:
Exercise 8 – emotional training
One of the symptoms in psychiatry is “emotional dullness.” At the same time, a person can understand everything and think logically, but ceases to experience emotions, i.e. as if he turns into a walking computer and essentially ceases to be a person. Preserving emotions in full is the task of emotional training.
There are emotions such as joy, sadness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, interest, delight, contempt, shame and many emotional shades. Emotions are awakened by films, music, songs, theater, painting, fiction, sports competitions, etc. Certain emotions may prevail. For example, a good comedy film is an opportunity to laugh a lot, a melodrama is an opportunity to cry while empathizing with the characters, to experience fear in a horror film, etc. Those who are arrogant about “soap operas” are wrong - whoever likes what.
The role of emotional training is invaluable. For example, the American writer Norman Cousins got rid of a serious spinal disease that did not respond to medication with the help of... laughter therapy. Every day he watched very funny comedies, laughed a lot, and gradually the disease subsided. In the 18th century, the scientist Sydenham wrote: “The arrival of a clown in a city means much more for the health of its inhabitants than dozens of mules loaded with medicine.”
There are positive emotions, there are negative ones, but they cannot be divided into good and bad: all are necessary to one degree or another.
Five rules of nutrition for a long life
If only because back then people ate only natural “live” food, and we have to think about what to put in our mouths so as not to harm ourselves. Meanwhile, normal, “correct” food is an indispensable condition for a long life. Professor, leading researcher at the Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Biotechnology, Alla Pogozheva, named five basic rules for what to put in the “longevity plate” for the readers of RG - Week.
For the brain and heart
Food can protect against “age-related” diseases: primarily heart and vascular diseases, obesity and associated diabetes, as well as joint diseases. In old age, as a rule, muscle mass decreases, and bones become porous and brittle - osteoporosis occurs. Therefore, the first rule of nutrition is this: complete proteins are a must, we take them from lean meat (veal, beef, turkey, rabbit, chicken), eggs, cheese, cottage cheese. “Harmful” animal fats (fatty meats) - at a minimum, healthy vegetable oils (olive, sunflower, etc.) - 2 tablespoons per day. And another important component for preserving blood vessels is Omega-3 fatty acids (they are found in fatty sea fish, flaxseed oil, and walnuts).
For teeth and joints
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The main assistant here is calcium contained in milk and dairy products. But regular milk is digested less and less with age. Therefore, you should love fermented milk products - kefir, yogurt, fermented baked milk. It is advisable to choose products with low fat content (1.5 percent). And it is better to buy products fortified with probiotics (usually labeled as BIO).
Sugar is sweet poison
In order to “maintain” a normal weight, it is important to limit the amount of carbohydrates. In this case, for example, whole grain bread and bread with bran are needed. Cereal porridges - buckwheat, millet, pearl barley, oatmeal - are also good (just not instant, so that there is fiber). But sugar and sweets should be boycotted. If you really want something sweet, eat dried fruit with tea - dried apricots, prunes. They contain healthy fructose. But you can’t overdo it here either - they are very high in calories. Finally, vegetables and fruits will complement our “longevity plate” - you need to eat at least 0.5 kg of them per day.
Salt is also evil
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The national love for canning is simply a scourge for cardiologists. Salt - for everything, to add salt to everything - you need to eat no more than one teaspoon (5-6 g) per day. Therefore, it is better to completely forget the salt shaker as a table utensil. And do not add salt to all ready-made dishes. You can get used to it. Stewed or grilled meat without salt, by the way, turns out more juicy. You can add flavor by squeezing lemon on it, sprinkling with herbs and dry seasonings.
Vitamins are not canceled
And yet, getting everything you need from food is not always possible.
Therefore, it is also good to take vitamin and mineral complexes. A good combination for older people: B6+Mg+Omega3. We also remember about calcium.
In some cases, your doctor may prescribe iodine supplements.
Exercise 9 – psychotraining
It is possible to be a long-liver in our imperfect world only if you have a stable, trained psyche, otherwise powerful stress will instantly destroy everything that you have created over the years. Psychotraining will help you be prepared for any shocks and have perfect self-control. Many different methods have been developed. Consult a psychotherapist and choose the most suitable one.
The classic method is Schultz’s auto-training. You can master it on your own or better with the help of an experienced instructor in 2.5 – 3 months.
of the Coue method is very simple and at the same time effective : at the moment of falling asleep and at the moment of awakening, mentally repeat the self-hypnosis formula several times. It should be short and clear. For example: “I am young, cheerful and healthy.” It is at these moments that the power of self-hypnosis is greatest and the body willingly obeys your will.
How to eat to live long
Through trial and error, scientists and doctors have identified the top 10 foods for a long life. It has been proven that long-livers eat these foods constantly or have them on their menu periodically. Go on the list!
- Brown rice Many people avoid carbohydrates because they are sure they make them fat. But, at the same time, carbohydrates are an excellent source of energy. Therefore, you should not completely give up whole grain products , which includes brown rice. It lowers cholesterol levels and reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases .
- Eggs are a source of protein and also lutein, which protects the eyes from cataracts. In addition, eggs reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke and prevent the formation of blood clots. Nutritionists say that you can safely eat 2-3 eggs a week. The British are not exactly stupid people, and they often consume an egg or two in the morning.
- Milk It is rich in calcium, necessary for bones and the prevention of the scourge of older people - osteoporosis. Drink two glasses of low-fat milk every day, or low-fat yogurts, and other dairy products rich in calcium.
- Spinach This plant has more useful things than any other. Spinach is a source of iron, vitamins C, A and K, antioxidants that protect against heart attack and stroke. Like eggs, it contains lutein, which helps the eyes.
- Bananas One fruit contains 467 mg of potassium, which is needed to keep muscles (especially the heart) strong and healthy. Look, what restless monkeys! It helps lower blood pressure and neutralizes acid. It is very helpful in treating heartburn.
- White chicken meat This is the healthiest chicken meat. Eat the breasts, which are low in fat, and be sure to remove the skin. Chicken contains selenium, which prevents cancer, and B vitamins, which increase energy levels and enhance brain function.
- Salmon Trout, salmon or more budget-friendly salmon and chum salmon, “democratic” types of red fish. Red fish is high in omega-3 fats, which lower cholesterol, protect against certain types of cancer, and prevent blood clots. Salmon contains niacin, which is said to protect against Alzheimer's disease.
Photo by Anatoly Stafichuk of the Pixabay portal - Blueberries Contain antioxidants that help prevent glaucoma, cataracts, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers, and heart disease. Normalizes brain function, fights stomach disorders.
- Spicy herbs Herbs and spices neutralize the negative effects of salt in food. Parsley, cilantro and other herbs are rich in beneficial substances, protect against diseases, and stimulate the functioning of the stomach.
- Garlic Helps prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease, reduces the risk of stroke, has an anti-inflammatory effect, and helps reduce pain and swelling in arthritis.
Exercise 10 – excretion system training
A large number of substances that require neutralization and removal are constantly formed in the body and enter it from the outside. The neutralization and extraction system is quite reliable. Its mechanism has been proven for millions of years, but is not designed for long-term overloads that occur, for example, with smoking, frequent alcohol consumption or poor nutrition. In this case, the system begins to malfunction and the body gradually turns into a waste dump with all the ensuing consequences - metabolic disorders, diseases, accelerated aging. Of course, there is no talk about longevity.
So, under normal conditions the system works flawlessly, but let's agree that a centenarian must train everything that can be trained. The problem is that the organs involved in excretion, and these are the liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract, lungs, skin, are basically not subject to our will. Long-time, proven allies of man come to the rescue - medicinal herbs. An appropriate diet and training of other systems also helps.
Liver. In the liver, toxic and foreign substances are neutralized, some of them are excreted in the bile. Artificially increasing the flow of bile stimulates the liver. Fasting has a choleretic effect - when switching to internal nutrition, both the bile ducts and the gallbladder are unloaded from bile. More than 50 medicinal herbs have a choleretic effect.
Kidneys. Artificially increasing the outflow of urine stimulates the kidneys. Watermelons, cucumbers, grapes, figs, radishes, parsley, dill, currants, etc., as well as medicinal herbs from which diuretic preparations are prepared, have a diuretic effect.
Gastrointestinal tract. One of its functions is highlighting. Plant fiber has a good laxative effect. Eating a variety of vegetables and fruits is a guarantee of good bowel function. Laxative herbal teas also contribute to this.
Lungs. The excretory function of the lungs is to remove carbon dioxide, acetone, ethanol, etc., as well as to self-clean the respiratory tract from dust. For training purposes, breathing exercises with hyperventilation of the lungs allow you to temporarily increase the release of carbon dioxide, i.e. with increasing frequency and depth of breathing.
The consequence of such exercises is two effects: hypocapnia - reduced carbon dioxide in the blood, and hyperoxia - increased oxygen in the blood and tissues.
- Hypocapnia stimulates mechanisms for restoring the level of carbon dioxide in the blood, which in turn is a consequence of increased metabolism. Thus, short-term hypocapnia stimulates metabolism.
- Hyperoxia stimulates defense mechanisms against the toxic effects of oxygen, the so-called antioxidant system. Training this system is extremely important as it prevents the formation of chemically aggressive free radicals. Its weakness accelerates the aging process and leads to diseases such as cancer, atherosclerosis, etc.
An example of a breathing exercise with hyperventilation of the lungs is the yogi exercise “bhastrika”, which means “blacksmith’s bellows”: take 10 very fast and strong inhalations and exhalations, then inhale and hold your breath for 10 seconds, exhale slowly. Repeat several times a day.
A good method of training the antioxidant system is a pressure chamber . Collections of expectorant herbs help speed up the release of foreign particles from the respiratory tract .
Leather. The excretory function of the skin is carried out by sweat and sebaceous glands. The functions of the sweat glands are close to the function of the kidneys. Their total number is 3-4 million, but normally up to 50% are in an inactive state. They can be stimulated by physical activity, heat (bath), and diaphoretic herbs.
What you need to eat to live long.
Raspberry perfectly stabilizes blood sugar levels. The plant pigment present in the berries, anthocyanin, is involved in the process of insulin production by the pancreas and is a preventative against diabetes.
Green tea protects against colon cancer. By drinking two cups of this aromatic drink a day, you not only quench your thirst and enjoy your favorite taste, but also prevent intestinal cancer. The tea contains cahetin substances, which, being powerful antioxidants, significantly suppress the growth and development of diseased cells.
Carrots, which contain a large amount of carotene, reduce the likelihood of skin cancer. Regular consumption of carotene-containing foods helps reduce the risk of skin cancer by 6 times (according to the findings of American scientists from the National Institute for Cancer Research.
Salmon and other fatty fish protect the cardiovascular system and improve its functioning. The fact is that the systematic consumption of healthy natural fats, which are present in fish, olive oil, nuts, etc., increases the content of HDL cholesterol (“Good.” In addition, the presence of healthy omega-3 acids prevents the development of heart disease and improves cerebral circulation, improves memory, clarity of thinking, attentiveness and is a prevention of senile dementia.
Shrimp and other seafood act as protectors of the musculoskeletal system. Vitamin B 12, present in shellfish, increases bone strength and is involved in the formation of new cells, and vitamin D is an important component of bone tissue.
Whole grains and whole grain products (bread) are protective against breast cancer. A daily intake of 30 grams of whole grains will help reduce the risk of this dangerous disease by half. And adding blueberries, wild strawberries, currants or chopped dried fruits to the finished porridge will help improve vision and stimulate the immune system. Berries can be consumed not only when they are in season; when dried or frozen, they retain most of the nutrients.
Baked or boiled potatoes are a blood pressure stabilizer and a source of potassium. 300 grams of potatoes per day, eaten with the skin on, will help lower blood pressure. Attention! Potatoes must be grown without the use of chemicals, otherwise a large amount of substances harmful to the body accumulate in the peel.
Rennet varieties of cheese (cheddar, mozzarella, suluguni) strengthen tooth enamel and prevent tooth decay. Just 10 grams per day will easily help reduce the level of acidity in the mouth and prevent the formation of caries.
Lettuce and spinach are eye protectors. Regular inclusion of foods rich in lutein in your diet significantly reduces the risk of macular degeneration.
Dry red wine can rightfully claim the title of elixir of youth and good mood. Half a glass of natural wine a day will saturate your body with resveratrol. It is a natural antioxidant found in grape seeds and berries that removes harmful free radicals from the body that damage and destroy cells.
Beef helps prevent excessive hair loss. Iron, which meat is rich in, directly affects the renewal of hair follicles and hair growth, and zinc prevents hair loss.
Garlic - prevention of prostate cancer. The active biological substances that make up this plant reduce the likelihood of cancer by 50%.
Grapefruit will protect against lung cancer. The juice and pulp of this citrus fruit contains the plant flavonoid naringin, which reduces the amount of enzymes that provoke the formation of harmful tumor cells. Good to know@Welnessphilosophy.
Exercise 12 - energy training
Most functions are carried out using electrical energy. Its generators are cellular organelles - mitochondria, which convert food energy into biopotentials. The function of electrical energy reserve is performed by ATP molecules. Strengthening any function leads to an increase in the consumption of electrical energy from the reserve (ATP) and restoration of the reserve due to an increase in the activity of mitochondria and an increase in their number.
Thus, training any function also trains the mechanisms of its energy supply. An artificial method of stimulating energy exchange is massage, in which the number of moving electrical charges sharply increases due to irritation of contact exteroceptors.
