What are the reasons for eternal youth and sudden old age?
Everyone does not want to grow old, as a rule, this is associated with weakness and disease, and, conversely, many want to rejuvenate. There are many legends, fairy tales, novellas and novels in history that speak of rejuvenation or prolongation of life: rejuvenating apples, Macropolus remedy, the story of Faust and Dorian Gray, and many, many others. But is there really a way to reverse the natural withering process, or at least delay it?
A person who does not sleep and does not age
Yakov Tsiperovich was born in 1953. He is now in his sixties, and he looks like he is no more than thirty.
It all happened in 1979, when his ex-wife, out of jealousy, put poison in his wine. As a result, he was in a state of clinical death, which lasted for about an hour, which in itself is a fantasy, since his brain should have died during this time. But that did not happen. On the contrary, having come to his senses, Yakov acquired new abilities that no one had ever had.
First, he stopped growing old, gaining eternal youth, and secondly, he stopped sleeping. He turned to doctors, psychics, folk healers, took various sleeping pills, but this did not lead to anything. The doctors even stated that he was absolutely healthy and asked him not to bother them anymore over trifles. The only thing that differed from the norm was his body temperature - 34 degrees.
Perhaps this was the reason for the slowdown of all biological processes in his body, as, for example, in a tortoise that lives for 200 years and which also has a reduced metabolism. However, Tsiperovich is not a turtle. Despite chronic insomnia, he is by no means slow, but, on the contrary, vigorous and mobile. To while away the night time, which he was forced to spend all alone, Tsiperovich began to write poetry and practice yoga.
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Eternal baby
Brooke Greenberg from America is not an aging girl. But, unlike the aforementioned Yakov Tsiperovich, her physiological age did not stop at the 30-year-old desired, probably by many, but at the years of the baby. She is 16 years old, and she looks like a one-year-old child, while not only physically, but also mentally - her mental development and habits fully correspond to her appearance. She still has baby teeth and is still ready to suckle. All anthropometric indicators of Brook are in full accordance with one-year-old age: weight 6,400 grams with a height of 75 cm.
One day, Brooke suddenly fell into a lethargic sleep for everyone, which lasted two weeks. Over time, they found the reason for this - a brain tumor, and everyone was preparing for the worst, but the tumor suddenly resolved by itself. In the same way, the stomach ulcer and the consequences of the stroke disappeared from nowhere. Scientists examined the strange child, but did not reveal any genetic or other anomalies. All of her other three sisters are also healthy. This is the first time this kind of incident has been recorded in history. Scientists have not found the reasons for the delay in aging.
Mysterious rejuvenation in Japan
A curious story happened to the Japanese woman Sei Senagon from Fukuoka Prefecture, who, after living for 75 years, noted strange changes in her body. At first, her gray hair disappeared, and her hair suddenly became black and thick, as in distant youth. After that, her gums became inflamed and began to ooze blood, where there was not a single tooth. The old woman went to the dentist, who dumbfounded her with a message that she was cutting new teeth. She couldn't believe it.
But then one day she woke up from a forgotten languor and began to demand sexual intimacy from her 80-year-old husband. Two years later, all her wrinkles were suddenly smoothed out, so much so that acquaintances did not recognize her on the street. Say Senagon separated from her decrepit husband, from whom she could no longer wait for satisfaction, and married a forty-year-old bank employee, who was sure that his wife was not more than 30 years old. And after 9 months, Sei gave birth to his son.
The news of incredible rejuvenation spread throughout Japan. No one could believe that a woman could just like that, without resorting to diets, creams, some kind of special gymnastics and plastic surgery, to regain her former years. The entire elite stood on their heads, trying to unravel the secret of her youth. Even experienced detectives were hired to follow Sei's every move, but they found nothing special.
A little later, scientists who examined Sei Senagon at the Gerontological Institute began to uncover the phenomenon. They concluded that the Japanese woman over-activated a gene that destroys dead and degrading cells. All this was caused, as it was believed, by excessive doses of biostimulants, which she took several years ago for her operated liver. Many old people, having learned about this miracle, also wanted to rejuvenate and began to take biostimulants, but rejuvenation never came to them. Probably, the reason is still in something else.
This terrible progeria
Progeria is a rare condition that literally means premature aging. The cause of Progeria is still unknown. In children, growth stops or slows down, the skin becomes dry, thin, and many wrinkles and age spots appear on it, like in old people. There is clouding of the eyes, pronounced sclerotic changes in the heart and blood vessels, teeth begin to loosen and, like hair, fall out.
Diseases that occur in very elderly people are characteristic: cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes mellitus, and malignant tumors. A sick child within a few years turns into a decrepit old man and dies before reaching 20 years of age, after several heart attacks or strokes. It should be noted that the mental and mental development of a child with progeria is fully consistent with his calendar age. A child, as it were, is a living time machine, where old age begins from childhood, and there is no period of maturity at all.
And what does science say about eternal youth and aging?
Science, as mentioned above, is unable to explain the reason for the delay in aging and, accordingly, rejuvenation. According to scientists, the process of life of all living beings inevitably goes from youth to old age and nothing else. It is believed that it is possible to slow down the process of natural destruction of all systems and organs of the physical organism, but death itself cannot be eliminated. The biological clock running in our body goes only in one direction, and it is impossible to reverse this process.
A. Vyatkin
