You Can Still Become A Sane Old Man

You want to take the longest-lived man in the world for an honest discussion. If he doesn't tell you the secret of a life that begins and never ends, at least he'll give you some clues.

What to do, what to eat, or how to think to live an eternity. In the meantime, find out that there are ongoing studies on people who have become completely healthy at an advanced age. The secrets of such a performance are already known. Desperate to find them?

What studies say that research a human life

Although many researchers have always questioned only diseases, others have tried the opposite, to research health, to find out why some people avoid cancer, heart attack, or Alzheimer's in their old age.

For this, they undertook a long work, to follow several individuals from birth to death, to interpret both medical, genetic, social, psychological data, as well as the factor called life, unpredictable and decisive.

Don't think that these people live in the arms of a researcher. Modern technologies allow remote monitoring, data transfer from the source directly to the computer, monitoring through various devices, various analyzes from just one sample taken.

They help researchers build a pathway for disease, from causes, maintenance to effects. In addition, face-to-face questionnaires with individuals about the socio-economic context in which they live for years are also important.

Because no molecular clue is more telling than the biggest determinant of general health: poverty.

And yet, money or happiness?

Although this research lasts a lifetime, there is still a researcher who lived and told about a conclusion of such a study.

In a speech to the TED Talks, Robert Waldinger, an American psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University revealed the secret. What keeps you healthy until old age? It's cheap, you didn't necessarily have it since childhood, only you can choose it, it doesn't just involve you and if you catch the age of 50 with it, you live healthy up to 80 years.

The secret is a partner, which can be friendship, family, drinks, or life. Initially asked what they would like from life, some researched individuals answered: "fame and money". But the happiest were the ones who got married.

The explanation lies in the relaxation and reconciliation of the mind with the soul that whatever happens, there is someone with you. Good relationships keep us healthier and keep us alive for a long time.

Loneliness does not appear in the catalog of deadly diseases, but this researcher can give you some examples.

Remember three great lessons about relationships

The first one teaches you to have social contacts even in a world of big cities where you can feel alone even in a crowd. Loneliness leads to isolation, the latter to the physical decline in the middle of life, followed by the mental one at the end of it.

Precisely because it is difficult to have close friends, colleagues to get along with, husband/wife with whom to live a happy life, learn this second lesson.

It doesn't matter the number of friends or social interactions per night, but the quality of a close relationship. If this is a conflicting one, without affection, don't get caught up in it, as you don't have to settle for superficial relationships.

The third lesson draws your attention to the quality of a relationship. If this is really what you need, a good relationship will protect not only your body from the passing of time but also your mind. It was found that a mind declines faster in the absence of a partner's assurance that he will always be with you.

Don't think that you have to have perfection in person, that quarrels should not take place in your relationship. If behind them, although upset, you are left with the feeling that that person is for you, you can grow old peacefully.

And if it's so easy, why don't they all live a thousand years?

Because you are human and you are wrong because these times and choices in life because relationships are complicated to maintain.

But the solutions to manage and maintain them for a lifetime are innumerable. One of them would be to look up from the computer and hold someone's hand, forgive or be patient.

Google X has created one of its most ambitious projects, a study of thousands of individuals tracked throughout their lives, while researchers gather molecular and genetic data to ultimately create a healthy human prototype.

A "Life Study" will also be launched in the UK, which aims to study an individual's life from birth to the last breath.

Couples who are about to have children are already enrolled, they are promised absolute confidentiality and are guaranteed the right to leave the study at any time. Researchers will analyze demographic and socioeconomic indices that influence their physical and mental health.