The Power Of Youth. How To Tune Our Mind And Body For A Long And Healthy Life

The Power Of Youth. How To Tune Our Mind And Body For A Long And Healthy Life
Andrei Fomenko

During the last couple of decades, science and medicine have taken a great step toward understanding what aging is. Technologies of cell reprogramming, tissue regeneration, genetic engineering, young blood transfusion, and many others are developing right before our very eyes. But it is not only the development of hightech that is crucial because even the less obvious things–from the placebo effect and the way of thinking to visualization and even ASMR–can help to defeat aging. Everything you need to know about how to live a long life without the painful agony of old age is right in your hands. This book contains the most relevant scientific reports on how to slow down age-related changes and stay young as long as possible.

Such a diverse view on the problem of aging–in terms of genetics, physiology, psychology, evolution, quantum mechanics, mathematics, etc. – distinguishes this book from many papers devoted to the prolongation of life and youth.

Andrei Fomenko

The Power Of Youth. How To Tune Our Mind And Body For A Long And Healthy Life

Project Manager Yu. Semenova

English proofreader K. Akhmetov

Computer layout by N. Astakhova

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INTRODUCTION

IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE 100 YEARS? MANY WOULD ANSWER THAT IT'S GOOD ENOUGH TO REACH AT LEAST THE AGE OF 80, BUT TO LIVE A CENTURY IS RATHER AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE AND A CHANCE THAT ONLY LUCKY ONES GET.

But what if it is far from that? There is a more optimistic scenario, which extrapolates: living to 100 or more and staying healthy and active is a real possibility for everyone.

It is almost everyone's biggest dream to live a long life. But various age-related problems, manifested in the form of physical weakness, mental decline, developing diseases, and other pathological changes, can block the path to this dream. Usually, all the average person can do to avoid it is to start exercising, quit using harmful substances, change their diet to include more healthy products, and try to avoid contact with infections. This is certainly important. But is it enough?

There is a lot of information nowadays about different ways to delay aging and prolong life. Theories, reviews, perspectives, and research findings we receive from paper and digital sources are varied, not all of them congruent, but often contradictory. There are lots of opinions on whether fasting is good for the body, what diet is the most effective, how much exercise we need, whether we should take vitamin supplements, how much time we should spare to get a daytime sleep, etc. Search engines "answer" these and other questions with millions of links.

But what if it comes to the prolongation of life and youth? Some specialists would say that if you want to live a long life, you need to strictly follow the laws of a healthy lifestyle; others would say that it is necessary to take as many geroprotectors[1 - Geroprotectors is the name given to a group of certain substances or therapeutic methods that help to increase longevity. Read more: Fomenko A. N., Proshkina E. N., Fedintsev A. Yu., Tsvetkov V. O., Shaposhnikov M. V., Moskalev A. A. "Potential geroprotectors." – Ed. note.] as possible; still, others would insist on continuous monitoring of health outcomes: measure physiological data and take regular tests. When it comes to our health, how not to get lost in the informational flow and ignore the unnecessary? What should we rely on?

Existing approaches to the problem of aging and prolongation of life are often flawed and rather one-sided. We should keep in mind that the problem is larger than it appears, so we need to consider it more broadly and consider many views. There are many ways to live a long life, and we will find out which of them are the most effective.

This book is a kind of "encyclopedia of aging" – it contains all the most important things you need to know about this process, as well as ways to prolong life and youth. Here you will find all the information about aging mechanisms, how to slow it down, how to prevent age-related diseases, and the lifestyle and mindset of long-livers.

After reading this book, you will gain the knowledge to acquire extra years of life, and you will learn how to apply them in practice, i.e., turn them into skills to control and even manage all physiological changes to achieve better health and longevity.

The knowledge gathered here comes from years of work on the VSH25[2 - VSH25 is a project to prolong life and preserve health. Read more at vsh25.net. – Ed. note.] project. Its goal is not just to prolong life, but to preserve youth and stop aging with an experimental biological program.

There are a lot of long-living animals and plants in the world, from turtles and sharks that live hundreds of years to baobabs and sequoias that live thousands of years. Some do not age at all. The attention of biologists and gerontologists has been drawn to naked mole rats for decades: these small rodents live an unusually long time compared to their relatives, and at the same time practically do not age or get sick. Another phenomenon is the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii: it can live forever. At maturity or under adverse conditions, this animal can "go back to childhood" – to the very first stage of the life cycle, which makes the jellyfish immortal.

Humans do not live that long compared to the record-breakers of wildlife. Before the twentieth century, the average life expectancy was about 40 years. However, this figure was almost doubled, and now, according to official data, it is about 73 years old. This happened not only due to medical advances, but also because the consciousness of mankind is gradually shifting, and the idea of life prolongation is more and more actively embodied in life. In the XXI century, new futuristic projections suggest a life expectancy of 150 and even 200 years.

Science and medicine have taken a great step towards understanding mechanisms underlying longevity, and so many discoveries lie ahead! Future breakthroughs in rejuvenation, gene therapy, stem cells, regenerative medicine, and organ replacement will one day allow people not to age or have a finite lifespan.

Living as long as possible is a goal that humanity shall give top priority. At the same time, each needs to remain motivated to maintain their health and prolong life: to learn about new medical advances, to read more on these topics, including materials on various scientific areas – even those, not obvious ones, such as mathematics and physics. Because knowing such universal concepts as brain, body, consciousness, time, evolution, death, and immortality will help to look at the problem of life prolongation from a completely different angle and to think about other scenarios for human development.

It is important to prolong not only life but youth – even if a third of the people on the planet do it, the world will change for the better. It is not a fantasy or an elusive goal. There is no need for lots of energy-consuming efforts or expensive means. All you need is to realize the responsibility for yourself and your life, understand how to "turn on" the body's defenses, and maintain the desire to live long, learning about new advances in the world of science and medicine.

SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVED

1. EXPECTATION OF LIFE PROLONGATION IS ALREADY PROLONGING LIFE.

2. OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE LIVE LONGER AND ARE LESS LIKELY TO SUFFER FROM PAIN. SADNESS AND DISSATISFACTION WITH LIFE CAN SHORTEN IT BY 13 YEARS (AS WELL AS SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES).

3. MEANINGFUL EXISTENCE PROLONGS LIFE.

4. A SUBJECTIVE FEELING OF OUR AGE PROLONGS LIFE.

5. THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO PROVEN OR APPROVED ANTI-AGING DRUGS IN THE WORLD.

6. PLACEBO WORKS EVEN WHEN A PERSON KNOWS IT IS A PLACEBO.

7. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A PLACEBO COMPARED TO MEDICATIONS IS INCREASING.

8. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A PLACEBO IS INCREASING IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.

9. MANY MEDICATIONS HAVE ALMOST THE SAME EFFECT AS A PLACEBO, BUT ALSO CREATE SIDE EFFECTS.

10. EXPECTATION TO FEEL BETTER AFFECTS THE SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASE.

11. WE CAN "TURN ON" THE NECESSARY GENES AND "TURN OFF" THE UNNECESSARY ONES.

12. 95 % OF DISEASES CAN BE AFFECTED BY THE PERSON.

13. SPIRITUAL PRACTICES HELP US FEEL HAPPY AND HEALTHY.

14. THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF SOCIAL TIES AFFECT LIFE SPAN.

15. CONCENTRATION OF ATTENTION IS AN IMPORTANT SKILL TO ACHIEVE ANY GOAL, INCLUDING PROLONGATION OF LIFE AND YOUTH.

16. HABITS AFFECT OUR LIVES AND OUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CONDITION.

17. MOST THINGS WE DO UNCONSCIOUSLY. THEREFORE, THE FORMATION OF USEFUL HABITS AFFECTS 90 % OF OUR ACTIONS AND LEADS TO A QUALITATIVE CHANGE IN ALL LIFE.

18. PASSION FOR ART HELPS PROLONG LIFE BY 30 %.

19. CONSCIENTIOUS PEOPLE LIVE LONGER SINCE THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM WORKS BETTER (DUE TO LOW LEVELS OF B-CELL STIMULATORY FACTOR 2).

20. THE THOMAS THEOREM SAYS: "IF MEN DEFINE SITUATIONS AS REAL, THEY ARE REAL IN THEIR CONSEQUENCES."

CHAPTER 1