Modern tourism has only recently begun to consider longevity so that people who have reached that stage can enjoy and take advantage of the benefits of the smoke-free industry.
Old age represents an important element for a country’s economy. Its relationship with work and compensation, as well as necessary medications, are important factors to consider.
Therefore, many researchers are delving into this element and investigating the advantages of better health at certain advanced ages.
Despite the burden of modernity, many voices today point to the pursuit of longevity. Especially the ability to enjoy quality of life, a lucid and active old age.
Dr. Eugenio Selman-Housein Abdo (1930-2015), founder and president of the 120 Year Club in Cuba. Once confessed to this journalist that, despite his opinion, human beings could live 300 years.
Selman-Housein Abdo (Matanzas, Cuba) was not a dreamer or a science fiction autor. He had a long career that included being awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Biological Sciences from the University of Oriente and a Professor of Merit at the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, specializing in Second-Level Surgery.
Although his opinions may surprise many, and even generate a mocking smile. They are more of a philosophy, allegory, or strategy that focuses on people and their healthiest potential.
Regardless of any interpretation of these words, his Club includes many veterans who, through their lifestyles, attest to the human potential to reach unsuspected heights.
Some global reports attest to this prevalence among humans. At the beginning of December 2012, the person considered the oldest person in the world at the time, American Besse Cooper, died. This title was later held by Dina Manfredini, who was born on April 4th, 1897, at 115 years old.
For the sixth male, the record for lifespan was held by 115-year-old Japanese Jiroemon Kumura. However, both were far from the record set by Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment (1875-1997), who lived 122 years and 164 days.
So, how long can humans live? What quality of life can Earthlings have at such an advanced stage of their lives?
AN OLDER AND MORE ACTIVE HUMAN
Elements such as obesity, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and unfavorable lifestyle habits (all linked to the economy and trade). As well as lack of movement and exercise for both the mind and body, compound the problems that impair longevity.
Most experts agree that technology and scientific discoveries may provide concrete elements to prolong life in the future.
Some medical reports indicate that humans are among the mammals with the longest lifespans, reaching a maximum of 120 years. Although wealthier countries establish an average that in some cases exceeds only 70 and in others 80, with differences in favor of women.
The industrialized world changed the parameters from 50 as the maximum to the longest life expectancy for Japanese women today, 83 years.
This increase in life expectancy is achieved by Japanese women through traditional methods in three basic areas: nutrition, hygiene, and medicine.
In 2001, for example, three-quarters of people over 60 lived in developing countries, a clear contradiction. We age as part of a natural process; this selection weakens us from the very beginning of our lives.
In Spain, there are more than 10,000 people over 100 years old, out of a population of about 45 million, which does not even represent 0.025 percent of the total population. From this, along with other data, we can infer that the body is not capable of such longevity, at least for now.
Scientists are divided; some believe that bodily aging is due to the aging of cells, irreversible. Others advocate the predominance of genes, which are controllable.
American biologist Leonard Hayflick doesn’t consider aging a disease. He estimates that curing cancer and cardiovascular disease would give humans 15 years of life. This situation doesn’t depend on genes, but rather on cellular, organ, and metabolic degeneration.
For his part, Dr. Richard Johnson, head of the Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension at the University of Colorado, USA. Discovered that modifying the genes of a worm in a laboratory can shorten its lifespan, thus depending on genetic modifications.
Some have concluded, that humans could have a life expectancy of 120 years if their genes are modified or they learn to protect their cells so they don’t wear out so quickly.
A study from the University of Chicago predicted an average life expectancy of 85 years. Data from Japan, the United States, and France confirm that life expectancy is still far from a century.
But there are scientific details that can provide hope, such as nanotechnology. Which may soon allow for long-lasting body replacements.
These include small sensors, microcomputers, devices so tiny they can be implanted and monitored for health care. With automatic treatments, to replace cumbersome medical checkups.
Currently, the creation of body replacements is beginning, such as a metal alloy hip with a lifespan of 100 years, capable of withstanding 100 million steps. The same as a 50-year-old would walk until reaching 100.
Some scientists point to the enzyme telomerase, which is capable of preventing telomeres from losing length, a kind of fountain of youth for cells.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have noted a genetic mutation in most people over 100 years old that keeps their HDL cholesterol (also known as “good cholesterol”) high.
Other scientists consider the criteria of expert Aubrey de Grey to be mythical, closer to the Bible, where heroes like Methuselah lived to 900 years.
This doctor founded an institute in California that researches human longevity and believes that during his lifetime, he will discover the tools necessary to cure aging, eliminating life-threatening diseases and thus extending life indefinitely.
Such an extension is within the reach of the jellyfish Turrotopsis nutricula, he says. For the scientist, medical management of all illnesses caused by infections will be ready in the next 25 years.
In his philosophy, the future will see humans only for maintenance, gene therapy, stem cell therapy, and immune stimulation. We would be talking about preventive geriatrics.
Statistics show that by 2030 there will be more than one million people over the age of 100. Japan leads the world with approximately 44,000 centenarians or older.
With information from Roberto F. Campos/Prensa Latina
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