In order to discover something beyond our understanding, it is not necessary to go to the Nazca plateau, run after green men or watch over unidentified flying objects. It is enough to simply turn to the person himself - our body sometimes presents such surprises, which modern science simply cannot explain.
And we are not talking about clairvoyance, levitation or the ability to walk on fire without any damage. We are talking about strange age anomalies, "jokes of nature", when a person suddenly begins to seem to return lost youth.
There are not so many such cases, but they are known in medical practice: at the end of a person's life, the course of biological time suddenly changes to the opposite.
Dentists encounter this phenomenon more often than many: they are surprised to discover that some of their patients, very old people and old women, suddenly begin to cut their teeth like babies!
But rejuvenation does not end there either: gray hair darkens, wrinkled skin is smoothed, health is restored. Here are just a few examples.
A resident of Beijing, 91-year-old Lan Shiren once became very ill: he could not even look at food and was weakened right before our eyes. Doctors just shrugged their shoulders and could not help, because failed to find out what old Lan was sick with. The old man lay in bed for three weeks without touching the food, and then a brutal appetite woke up in him and the vigor that had been lost over the years returned.
Doctors examined Lan again and were surprised to find that the old man had new teeth and the roots of his gray hair had turned black!
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"The expression 'toothless old age' does not fit the 90-year-old Shanghai resident Tan Jizhen now," writes the Chinese newspaper Jiefang Ribao. “In a short time, she had 25 new teeth, which together with the surviving ones made up a complete set.
Demonstrating her renewal in a smile, the old woman told reporters that her teeth began to fall out several decades ago. But one day, Grandma Tan felt itching and soreness in her gums, like babies have when their teeth are teething.
When a few days later she looked in the mirror, she almost fell: both jaws shone with a young pearl sheen!"
Several years ago, Xinhua reported a similar miracle happened to an elderly Chinese peasant woman. True, the joy of that old woman was by far more complete: along with her teeth, her black hair began to grow actively!
But what once began to happen to the 97-year-old Italian Rosa Faroni does not fit into any medical framework: today she has the figure of a girl, and she not only does not age, but looks younger every day!
The doctors were discouraged, they demanded to check if there was any deception, conducted examinations for plastic surgery, but nothing of the kind was found. Moreover, Rosa Faroni has never even used cosmetics.
“This woman is amazing. She, who has never had plastic surgery, looks 70 years younger than her age! - surprised the shocked Dr. Graza at a medical conference in Genoa. - Her memory and brain are sharp and clear. This is the most mysterious phenomenon I have ever encountered."
He first read about Rose in an Italian newspaper. The photo showed a beautiful young woman surrounded by six grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and sixteen great-great-grandchildren. Rosa Faroni looked in the photograph younger than her thirty-year-old great-granddaughter.
Liver, heart and blood pressure tests carried out in a private medical clinic showed that the tests of the great-grandmother were no worse than those of the girl. But, even more surprising, they turned out to be better than they were in 1960. Time seemed to run backwards!
Dr. Graza, an expert on aging, will observe the woman for six months, hoping to find a clue in her genetics. In the meantime, he only makes a helpless gesture.
The very culprit of the doctors' commotion explains everything with a blessing from above.
“I eat everything, smoke and drink more than I need to,” says Rosa. "The only thing that discourages me is the fear of getting pregnant - it's funny to give birth when you're under a hundred and I have to take birth control pills."
Japanese woman Sei Senagon from Fukuoka city, having reached 75 years old in 1997, also felt unexplained changes in her body. First, her gray hair disappeared, and her hair regained its former shine and black color. Then her gums began to bleed, so she could not wear a denture.
Say thought that these were the consequences of radiation and even wanted to write a will, but just in case she decided to consult with doctors and made the first visit to the dentist. But he, having examined the gums of the old woman, said that the radiation was radiation, but she would probably not die soon, because it is not known why her teeth suddenly began to cut!
And then fantastic events followed. Sei's skin on her body and face began to smoothen, muscles regained their former elasticity, attacks of osteochondrosis and other senile ailments disappeared into oblivion, and after a couple of years, Sei stopped recognizing her friends on the street, since she was twenty years younger.
After some time, her menstrual cycle resumed, she separated from her husband and married a forty-year-old bank clerk who claims that Say looks no older than thirty.
Sei Senagon for some time became the most famous and recognizable woman in Japan. She was endlessly interviewed, invited to various talk shows and endlessly annoyed with requests to sell the secret of her youth for any money.
However, it is even more surprising that today Sei looks much younger than a thirty-year-old woman and seriously fears that if the process of her rejuvenation continues at the current pace, then in fifteen years she will turn into a ten-year-old girl!
How to explain such phenomenal transformations, modern science cannot understand. However, there are already some steps on the path of cognition: not so long ago, gerontologists discovered a gene that, as it were, helps the formation of cells that can destroy aging and dead cells.
They had a hunch that the oncogene, which, under certain circumstances, causes rapid and uncontrollable cell division and leads to tumor diseases, is nothing more than a gene of youth, only as if “gone crazy” and destroying not diseased cells, but healthy ones.
Therefore, aging is completely unnatural for the human body, within which a whole system and program of protection against impending death is initially laid. Researchers today set the task of removing dormant reserves from a state of rest and making them actively function.
This Indian became a father for the last time at the age to which many do not live.
Until the end, gerontologists do not fully understand the reason for the sudden awakening of the genes of youth. And if we call everything by its proper name, then it is not clear at all. It also remains to be seen why vital genes are usually dormant.
Naturally, scientists constantly need guinea pigs to solve such complex problems.
And as one of these "rabbits" in the early 90s was a resident of Germany Amanda Raidenaur. True, we can say about her that she is half young. In appearance, she could have been seventeen or eighteen years old, and she is a real beauty: she has beautiful lush hair, soft transparent smooth skin, clear big eyes, regular facial features …
At the same time, the wonderful head rests on a body broken by years and diseases - Frau Raidenaur is actually 95 years old, she is the great-grandmother of several almost adult great-grandchildren. And she feels herself according to her age.
Old age, which mercilessly cracks down on a woman's body, practically did not touch her face. Doctors became interested in this phenomenon, conducted a thorough examination and verification of the necessary documents and, first of all, found out that the woman had never resorted to plastic surgery in her life. It was not possible to find out anything worthwhile, and Frau Raidenaur began to study genetics.
When world renowned geneticist Dr. Gerhard Dremkan saw Amanda Raidenaur for the first time, he decided he was dealing with a case of an unusual disease in a very young woman.
Maybe this is some kind of unexplored form of progeria, a serious incurable disease in which a young body suddenly begins to age, and a person dies at the age of 20-25, looking like a deep old man? But Amanda is not a young girl, she really lived in the world for 95 years.
At a press conference, Amanda said: “My husband died last year, and I know I don't have much time left. Previously, I did not want to be made a laughing stock of me in various newspapers there, but now, if you need to be a guinea pig for doctors in old age, I agree, the main thing is that it would be useful for people. However, so far, neither genetics nor other scientists are able to explain this phenomenon.
The consequences of the "crazy" youth gene can be varied. Japanese Sei Senagon over time can really turn into a little girl, and American Tina Jenkins, on the contrary, become an adult woman only in five hundred years!
Today, Tina babbles, blows bubbles and plays with dolls like an ordinary baby. Meanwhile, she is already 45 years old! Everything else, except age, is normal. Scientists unanimously assert that this is a completely normal healthy girl with the physiology and behavior of a one-year-old child.
And, by the way, they add that if it continues to develop at such a pace, then it has a chance to live for 1500 years. And Tina Jenkins, according to the calculations of specialists, will celebrate her coming of age at such a rate of development somewhere in 2388. We will certainly not live up to this date if scientists in the coming years do not awaken the dormant gene of youth.
True, there is another explanation for such phenomena. Scientists believe that several “biological clocks” are “ticking” in our body at once, located in different organs, and each is responsible for its own part of the body. One of the most important tasks: to understand why failures sometimes occur in their work, which turn out to be joy for some, and tragedy for others.
Scientists have discovered that in the first days of life, babies live in a 25-hour rhythm and only after some time are rebuilt to a 24-hour, daily rhythm.
That is, as soon as he is born, the child is exposed to the strongest stress: he lacks a whole hour in a day! This stress sometimes (fortunately, extremely rarely) becomes the cause of progeria. Science has not yet been able to stop this process. About fifty cases of progeria have been recorded in the world, and all of them ended in sadness.
However, what exactly is a "biological clock" and what does their correct course depend on? Science does not yet give an exhaustive answer. According to one of the formulations, "biological clock" is a conventional term denoting the ability of a living organism to orient itself in time.
The basis of the "biological clock" is the strict periodicity of the processes occurring in the cells. It is believed that insomnia, stress, environmental imbalance, smoking and alcohol contribute to the failures of our internal "walkers".
However, no matter what explanations scientists have put forward, no one has understood what the secret of sudden aging, and even more so rejuvenation, really is.