Sunday, April 16, 2017

The Secret of Longevity

The pursuit of mankind has never stopped on longevity. In recent years, want to use the power of modern science to extend the life of mankind, has become the direction of the efforts of scientists. Now the "longevity secret" a lot, but they really fly it? How can people be longevity? Recently, "Time magazine" with 23 pages published a special report, mainly to say how people can live longer, modern technology can help us to extend the life to what extent. "Get" subscribe to the product "Ma Xujun said the magazine" for us to read this report, I'll give you a quote.

First of all, since ancient times, how long people have longed for longevity. There is no need to say in the past, people eat a lot of strange plants, with heavy metal refining elixir, there are people to the animal tissue transplanted to the human body. To the modern, people are still carrying out a lot of research, the world's longevity is the most fanatical, not scientific workers, but Silicon Valley well-known entrepreneurs. Such as Oracle's founder Larry Ellison, who has spent $ 300 million to study aging and cure geriatrics; Google co-founder Larry Page, or even set up a company specifically for this , To study how to extend human life; also, such as entrepreneurial godfather Peter Till, just to a study of how to extend the life of non-profit organizations to donate 7 million dollars.

What is the scientific research on longevity now under the keenness of modern people? "Time" refers to the existing four methods:

The first method is blood transfusion, the health of young people's blood, lost to those older people. There is a company in the United States dedicated to providing such services, people can spend $ 8,000, from the healthy young people to buy blood lost to their own. The theory of the company's propaganda that young people's blood there are some factors that can help the cells repair and regeneration, into the young people's blood can help the elderly to delay aging, to restore vitality. But in fact, this experiment only in animals, although it can improve the health status, but the effect is not particularly obvious, but in fact the effect of the human body has not been verified.

The second method is to give the body a comprehensive pixel-level check, genome sequencing and biopsy. This is a way to predict the disease you may have in order to prevent or even early surgery, but this check is very expensive, once needed 25,000 US dollars, so far the United States only 400 people have done such a check, of which 40% Identify health risks, such as cancer, aneurysms and even heart disease. This method can be achieved in technology, but first of all is expensive, followed by "traumatic disease" in the form will also bring a huge psychological burden.

The third way is to take medicine, or eat supplements. Now there are about two kinds of market, one can help people to delay aging, re-activation of cell vitality, but this drug has not done clinical trials, so only as a health supplements, can not be considered a real medicine; the other can help People activate brain cells, but the ingredients and functional drinks are almost the same, after taking the feeling of the brain seems to be really flexible, but scientific research shows that this may only be "placebo effect" is not necessarily the effect of the drug itself. Therefore, these two drugs, are currently not proven by the scientific method effective.

The fourth method is high-tech diet. Experiments show that if you reduce calorie intake, a few days a week do not eat only drink water, help to extend the life of mankind. However, the benefits of regular diet on health, in the end because of the reduction of the risk of obesity caused by various diseases, or from the regeneration of healthy cells, in fact, is not clear, and even if the role is also quite limited.In general, these methods either do not fly, or the cost is too expensive. So, we ordinary people want to longevity there is no practical way? "Time magazine" also gives three suggestions.The first suggestion is to want to live long, we must maintain a strong curiosity. The study, from the director of the longevity center at Stanford University, said that for the things to maintain a learning mentality, always let themselves in the state of knowledge, people can think and cognitive ability is not degraded.

The second suggestion is to eat more fruits, vegetables and nuts, and eat more than you think enough that the amount of more. A survey in 2015, after investigating 450,000 European adults, found that those foods made up of plants were 20 percent less likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease than others. Harvard's study also found that those who prefer to eat fruits and vegetables, the risk of heart disease is 30% lower. So, eat more fruits and vegetables, reduce calorie intake, to maintain health is good, less intake of 25% a day calories, the effect is better.

The third suggestion is, may wish to think about aging this thing for their own meaning. Yale University School of Public Health Professor Levy has done an experiment and found that young people in the old age to do serious thinking, is very good for health. Those who have a positive attitude towards aging are an average of 7.5 years more than those who have a negative attitude towards old age. In other words, for the aging of this thing has a positive and correct view, but to help more longevity.

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