Anti-age-therapy: forget about the age

Gerontology we used to perceive as the science of studying the aging process, whose mission - to help older people cope with age-related problems. In fact far more important than their prevention, which is today called the anti-age-therapy.

It is intended to correct the inequities of nature, in which some live to 100 years and more, while others barely step over the threshold of retirement age. Is this possible? On this and other questions are answered Vladimir Khavinson, MD, professor, Corresponding Member. RAMS, Director of the St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, senior gerontologist Petersburg.
- Vladimir Khatskelevich, anti-age-therapy called the new direction in medicine and hope that with the development of its people will finally be able to live up to 250 years old and up to 300, explaining that it was such a term is the body of nature. That in these statements is true and what - the desire to wishful thinking?
- When we say that a person can live 250-300 years, it's true - the organism has no such reserves. Maybe after many years will be found ways so radical life extension, but at the current level of knowledge - physics, chemistry, biology - it's impossible. At all times, longevity was a mystery to mankind, which it tries to open. Someone looking for a perpetual motion machine, someone immortality - and well, if they do it honestly mistaken, and not moshennichaya and not making money out of gullible people. Today, it is certain that nature has the upper limit of life - 110-120 years (up to 122 years, lived only one man, as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records). In Russia, the longest-lived yakutchanka Barbara testicular - 117 years. Fortunately, in Yakutia, there was no war, and therefore preserved the archives, for which it was possible to verify the authenticity of the date of birth.
- But in the media regularly get messages that are found centenarians who have lived and 125, and 130 years ...
- These are the cases where it is impossible to determine the true age. As proof of passport data are presented, drawn from the words. That is why the International Fund for accounting centenarian population of the planet has decided to recognize the age of only when data are available church records of birth (no erasures), while it is desirable that there were witnesses. Unfortunately, in the European part of this very difficult. Or in Chechnya, for example, where traditionally a lot of long-lived, but the archives also have not been saved ...
- But whether it is good - live up to such old age?
- Neither good nor bad - of course. The aging of the world's population continues - in 2050 on Earth will be more than one billion people aged 60 and older. In St. Petersburg, now more than 25 percent of the population - people of retirement age. The aging of society - a satellite of human evolution, a natural process: the older the civilization, the longer people live. And they are very valuable to society because of their experience, wisdom and professional knowledge. See artist BE Yefimov dead at 109 th year of life, our Academician FG Angles - to 104-year life, it is up to 95 years conducted classes in the department and did the operation. Artist VM Zeldin (96 years), directed by JP Lyubimov (1992), many scientists and academicians who have reached old age, are active, this suggests that the potential to work actively and to be a useful member of society in the age of 80 years and we see this steady trend.
- But why some people are willing to move mountains and 70, and 80 years, and the other at this age feel so badly that prepared the ferry?
- The fact that all our organs and tissues have 30-percent biological resource - the supply of so-called stem (pluripotent) cells. Realized he was not all. That's why some survive to extreme old age, one can say in good health, others are not. These cells are a kind of substrate for increasing the duration of life and include in the process of life, they keep working organs and body systems.
- What is anti-age therapy and whether it can extend the activity in old age?
- It depends on what meant by anti-age-therapy. Today it is referred to by many, even cosmetology centers. There are centers that practice hormone therapy to rejuvenate the body, which is actually very dangerous - when you receive hormones from outside, suppressed their production of the body, to no good it does not.
ANTI-age-therapy - is slowing down the aging process so that the body is forced to engage in processes of his life are the same, 30 percent of biological reserve.
- Is there a way to 'artificial inclusion "of this biological reserve?
- Yes, and this is proved in the course of long experiments to increase the duration of life, which were conducted in the USSR in animals and then on humans. Russia, but rather the Soviet Union holds the world record in the field of life extension in the experiment. 30 years ago on the basis of the Military Medical Academy. SM Kirov was a special laboratory with an experimental clinic, where the conduct costly research. In the development of drugs, their study involved nearly 50 research institutes all over the USSR. Of course, only with the physical facilities of the USSR and in particular the Ministry of Defense could utilize the scientific potential of the whole Union. As a result, it was created 6 drugs, they are introduced in the Russian pharmacy, and used in the treatment of various diseases. Based on them were established drugs to prevent aging - bioregulators.
- What is Bioregulators? This is precisely the "rejuvenating tablets, dreamed about for millennia?
- Bioregulator - is peptides, small proteins, which do not form antibodies, and is normally present in the body. We get them and without the "pills" by eating meat products. In the process of assimilation of meat protein breaks up the peptides, they fall into the stomach, the intestines into the blood to cells and regulate gene activity. These processes are programmed by nature. But in order to "start" the cells that make up the biological resources of the body, the income of peptides from food is not enough. Need large quantities in the laboratory bioregulators we have learned to distinguish them from young animals. By introducing these drugs to animals, we have increased life expectancy to the upper limit of the species by reducing the incidence of malignant tumors, enhance the immune and cardiovascular systems of the brain by maintaining bone density ... That is, the activity of organs and tissues of the body remained at the level of middle-aged, and the period of its existence in a state old-age decline. Application bioregulators people (the elderly) is studied for 12 years, the result - reduction of mortality by half.
- Does this mean that it is enough to start taking bioregulators, long and active lives and we achieved?
- What would be ideal were not modern medicine and pharmacology, even if they have provided us with the almighty pill of eternal youth, and the person taking it, would continue to ruin yourself - do not sleep at night, drinking, smoking, the spare capacity of the body will be powerless, so that him in any case they must help. Great health is the environment, but here man is powerless drastically change something. But he can lead a healthy lifestyle, drink clean water, eat right ... We conducted research among the oldest old St. Petersburg, and found that among them there is no complete human and not a single vegetarian (a protein the body needs), and that's what people prefer - tea or coffee, did not matter. Reliably known - all centenarians were fed a regular basis (breakfast, lunch and dinner), this means that the body regularly received the necessary nutrients for metabolic processes. Do not avoid physical exertion, even physical education is very important from a biological point of view - with the help of motion we are struggling with stagnant in the body: in a cage included, must get out of it.
- At what age should engage in anti-age-therapy - prevention of aging?
- Geriatrists sure that you can start and closer to retirement ... Pediatricians also said that prevention should be dealt with almost from birth, because the aging process begins at age 14, when formed bone system, and the body begins to age is the age of three. But the truth is, as always, somewhere in the middle. To avoid the most frightens us frailty in old age, prevention of aging needs to be dealt with 30 years. In this case, under the anti-age-therapy should be understood, above all, care about their health. Smart-sighted people is conducting a survey, identify a predisposition to certain diseases, and consciously take measures that would prevent them develop.