Health and factors that reduce it

In 1989, the famous physician GI Tsaregorodtsev said: "We mastered the arithmetic of the disease and stopped before the algebra of health."

The well-known writer B. Shaw considered "a healthy body - a product of a healthy mind."

Indeed, for a long time the question of how to maintain health and be efficient before old age has not been studied enough.

At present, the preservation of human health is becoming one of the primary problems of our society. This is due to an increase in the negative impact of solar activity and the instability of weather conditions, the deterioration of the environmental situation and social conditions.

However, along with the influence of adverse factors, one of the reasons that reduce health is the person's ignorance of the laws of the work of his body, of what he himself, by his behavior and way of life undermines him.

Scientists give different definitions, assessing the state of human health. Summarizing many judgments, it can be concluded that health should provide:

• the longest life expectancy;

• physical and mental performance;

• reproduction of healthy offspring;

• high adaptive capabilities to the impact of extreme environmental factors;

• maintaining the rhythm of the body,

• high spiritual and moral state.

All this largely depends on the mind of the person, on his attitude to himself, on preserving the reserves of his body.

Despite the deterioration of environmental conditions, the life expectancy of a person is gradually increasing.

There are reports that in ancient times the pharaohs and priests lived for a relatively long time. However, the average life expectancy, for example, in France in the XIV century was only 20 years. Death, as a rule, came from external causes.

In the 20th century, human pathology is represented by 90% non-communicable diseases, of which only 10 diseases in 85% of cases are the cause of death. These are:

• cardiovascular pathology;

• Oncology;

• Diseases of the respiratory system;

• diabetes;

• tuberculosis.

The following factors have the greatest impact on the development of the disease:

• environmental contamination( electromagnetic fields, "transport fatigue", the presence of noise and vibration, polluted and dusty air);

• smoking;

• Alcohol abuse;

• inadequate nutrition( obesity or malnutrition);

• hypokinesia( sedentary lifestyle);

• excessive psycho-emotional reactions to stress and inability to actively relax;

• genetic factors;

• Low adaptive capabilities of the body;

• insufficient hypoxic stability;

• disturbance of rhythm of work of internal processes and the whole organism as a whole.

The well-known oncologist VM Dilman believes that there is a kind of "calendar" that reflects the total changes in the body from the beginning of life to death - these are "big biological clocks".The duration of the "big biological clock" is different for different living beings, including humans.

These "watches" measure the time, the rhythm of the body's basic systems, the state of which can be judged by the weight of the body, the amount of cholesterol in the blood, etc.

Different movements in the body( for example, weight gain,, according to the scientist, shortens life).

A large group of diseases is a disease of adaptation and occurs precisely under stress.

The number of negative influences on the body is the representation of each of the people about old age. Harmonization of biological rhythms will increase the duration of human life.

The scientist put forward a hypothesis in which a person is viewed as an integral part of nature. Therefore, the diseases associated with the normal mechanism of aging can be overcome: knowing the norm achieved in the development process, we must strive to maintain it and not to allow large deviations and the emergence of desynchronosis in the interaction of body biorhythms.

The maximum life expectancy of a person is supposedly 120-180 years. Now the average duration is 70 years.

Social progress has significantly increased the life expectancy of a person and changed the idea of ​​the chronology of age and old age. For example, in the XIX century, a 50-year-old man was already considered elderly.