How not to age ahead of time

Premature aging: causes and symptoms

In addition to the age specified in the passport, each person has a personal aging rate - biological age. Scientists have long noticed that some people age earlier, while others stay young longer. Probably, you yourself have seen this more than once, and maybe even noticed on your own.

In addition to genetically determined rates, the rate of aging is influenced by the amount of stress that causes unhealthy responses to the world. Early old age has all the symptoms of "burnout" such as hypochondria, anxiety and hysteria.

So, if there is a person in your environment who starts screaming and stamping their feet for any insignificant reason, perhaps this is a "young old man." And it turns out that there are not so few of them.

In 38% of Russians, the biological age is 7-9 years older than the passport age, and, most often, such people weigh more, get sick more often, and, in general, are weaker than their peers, whose biological age coincides with the date in the passport.

Of course, scientists decided to identify the causes of this "ailment", and it turned out that it is directly affected by the standard of living.

“Young old people”, as a rule, earn little, live in communal apartments or cramped, old apartments, do not have a decent education, eat poorly and raise two or more children. Such people move a little and hate their work.

That is, aging is directly related to the satisfaction that a person receives from life.

Another reason for early aging is the fact that a person stops learning. This can happen for various reasons, and educational institutions have nothing to do with it. You can study all your life, learn something new, and at the same time never be a student.

So, the reasons for early aging:

Dissatisfaction with life
Decreased mobility
Arrest in development (learning)

What to do in order not to age ahead of time?

Eat less, move more

To give specific examples of prolonged youth, you can pay attention to centenarians - as a rule, they stay young longer, maintain health, mobility and a clear mind longer. Some - until their death.

There are centenarians in almost any country, only their number may differ. Probably many have heard that Japan is famous for its long-livers. The average life expectancy there is 83, 91 years. Also excellent performance in the Scandinavian countries and in France.

One of the reasons for such a percentage of centenarians in these countries can be considered the diet - in Japan and Scandinavia they eat a lot of seafood, and in France it is customary to eat small portions and eat slowly. Japan has a very low percentage of obesity - only about 3%, and in the Scandinavian countries about 70% of the population is involved in outdoor sports.

From interviews with various centenarians, we can conclude that most of them ate quite modestly. In addition, centenarians tend to work hard. So the phrase from the famous cartoon can be considered a secret about how to stay young and live longer.

Keep learning

From the very first day, a person learns and learns the world, discovers something new for himself.

An interesting fact: the largest percentage of people whose passport age is very different from the psychological one is found among the thirty.

By the age of thirty, it may seem to a person that he has already studied everything that is necessary for him for life, acquired a specialty in which he will do the same for the rest, and stopped in development. This decision is invariably followed by aging.

When a person stops learning, he enters the stage of aging. A. A. Zinoviev

Learn a new job, a new hobby, read new works, find new areas and dive into them - it preserves the taste of life and does not allow you to get bogged down in the monotony of everyday life.

Because I like

Back in 1860, Karl May, traveling in the Caucasus, where there was always a large percentage of centenarians, noted that people live long, because they like it.

A large number of friends, relatives and neighbors, mutual assistance, warm relationships - all this helps to eliminate fear, loneliness, despondency and depressive moods. It turns out that the most important thing is psychological comfort and enjoyment of life.

Warm family ties help Italians live longer, despite the fact that Italy is one of the most smoking countries in Europe. The average life expectancy there is 77 years (in Russia - 69). High rates outside Europe - in Cuba (76 years), and, again, one of the reasons for this is the natural optimism and cheerfulness of the Cubans.

And in conclusion, I would like to combine all the reasons and advice with the opinion of Lyudmila Belozerova, a professor who created a method for determining biological age: