Who sells the elixir of eternal youth. Is there an elixir of immortality and an elixir of youth? Is there eternal life? Well, in the meantime, scientists are studying and testing a new, untested technology, and centenarians of the Caucasus are sharing their secrets, already proven over centuries

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The human body is 70 percent water. It is not for nothing that one famous biologist figuratively called living beings “animate water.” Obviously, for a person’s health and longevity, it is not indifferent what kind of water nourishes the tissues of his body. And indeed, in last years it became known that water varies significantly not only in chemical impurities, but also in isotopic composition and other features. Many properties of water change, for example, if it is passed between the poles of a magnet. Water can be more biologically active, and this affects the aging process of the body. But we still don’t know much about the properties of water - an important component of our body.

In any case, today it is no longer vague legends or ancient legends, but scientific research that speaks about the influence of water on the health and life expectancy of the inhabitants of different regions of the Earth.

It is known that the inhabitants of some islands Caribbean, for example, the Guadeloupe Islands, look much younger than their European peers. When they are asked how they manage to remain young for a long time, the answer is usually: “On our island, such water flows from springs that rejuvenates a person...” The inhabitants are also distinguished by excellent health central regions Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Residents of Sri Lanka consider the climate and water of mountain springs to be the reason for their health. Apparently, it was no coincidence that the ancients tried to look for life-giving water on this island.

Some scientists also associate the longevity of the highlanders and a number of peoples of the North with the water they drink. This is the so-called “melt water effect”, which has a beneficial effect on metabolism and thereby, as it were, “rejuvenates” the body.

Today, searches are no longer conducted on distant islands or unknown lands. They are carried out in dozens of laboratories of the largest scientific centers world, studying the properties of water and its effect on the human body.

People who were extremely concerned about maximizing their lives were, for the most part, endowed with wealth and power. They were looking for the shortest route. And such a path seemed to exist. The most ancient traditions and legends mentioned it - this is the “elixir of immortality”, which the gods tasted. IN different countries he was called by different names. The gods of the ancient Greeks used ambrosia, which gives eternal life, the Indian gods used amrita, the gods of the Iranians used haoma. And only the gods Ancient Egypt, showing majestic modesty, they preferred water to the other food of the gods. True, the same water of immortality.

No one came as close to the elixir of immortality as the alchemists, who, however, were looking for something completely different - ways to make gold. There was a certain logic in this. Immortality is a state that is not subject to change. Isn’t gold the only substance that is not subject to external influences? It is not afraid of alkalis or acids, it is not afraid of corrosion. It seemed that time itself was powerless before him. Doesn't this metal contain some principle that makes it like that? And is it possible to isolate this substance from it or introduce it into the human body along with gold? “Whoever takes gold inside,” says one ancient Eastern text, “will live as long as gold.” This is the traditional basis of ancient beliefs: eat the eyes of an eagle - you will be like an eagle, eat the heart of a lion - you will be strong like a lion...

Gold was an indispensable component of various versions of the elixir of immortality. A recipe has come down to us, compiled by the personal physician of Pope Boniface VIII: one must mix crushed gold, pearls, sapphires, emeralds, rubies, topazes, white and red corals, ivory, sandalwood, deer heart, aloe root, musk and ambergris. (We hope that prudence will prevent readers from applying the composition given here too hastily.)

Not much simpler was another composition, which can be found in one ancient eastern book: “You need to take a toad that has lived for 10,000 years and a bat that has lived for 1,000 years, dry them in the shade, grind them into powder and take them.”

And here is the recipe from an ancient Persian text: “You need to take a man, red-haired and freckled, and feed him with fruits until he is 30 years old, then lower him into a stone vessel with honey and other ingredients, enclose this vessel in hoops and seal it hermetically. After 120 years, his body will turn into a mummy.” The contents of the vessel, including what became the mummy, could then be taken as a healing and life-prolonging agent.

Misconceptions that sprout in any sphere of human activity have brought a particularly abundant harvest in this area. In this regard, we can mention a French scientist of the 15th century. In search of the elixir of life, he boiled 2000 eggs, separated the whites from the yolks and, mixing them with water, distilled them many times, hoping in this way to extract the sought-after substance of life.

The obvious meaninglessness of such recipes does not yet indicate the meaninglessness of the search itself. Only that which was discarded as unnecessary became known. But if we judge the history of a particular science only by unsuccessful experiments and failed discoveries, the picture will probably be approximately the same.

Experiments in the field of immortality were distinguished by one circumstance - the complete mystery that surrounded the results. If we imagine that some of these attempts were completed successfully, that is, someone managed to somewhat lengthen their life, then, naturally, everything was done to ensure that this recipe did not become anyone’s property. If, after taking the drug, the object of the experiment lost his life, he could no longer tell anyone about his sad fate. Such a fate befell, for example, the Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (713-756). He went to his royal ancestors much earlier than expected only because he had the imprudence to take the elixir of immortality, prepared by his court physician.

Among the few about whom we know that, having taken the elixir, they considered themselves immortal, was one rich gentleman-philanthropist who lived in Moscow in the last century, whom everyone called simply by his first name and patronymic - Andrei Borisovich. In his old age, he began to indulge in various research related to the elixir of eternal life, guided mainly by his own intuition. And since a person is inclined to believe in himself more than in any other authority, it is not surprising that Andrei Borisovich was soon completely confident that he had finally found the composition he was looking for. Like many other seekers of the elixir of immortality, he chose to keep his discovery a secret. He himself believed so much in the effect of the composition that he really felt rejuvenated, he even began going to dances... Until his last minute, he had no doubt at all about his own immortality.

This case is reminiscent of the story of another Russian gentleman who lived around the same time and also believed in his own immortality. Even in his youth, while once in Paris, he visited the famous fortuneteller Lenormand. Having told him everything pleasant and unpleasant that awaited him in the future, Lenormand completed her prediction with a phrase that left an imprint on his entire future life.

“I must warn you,” she said, “that you will die in bed.”

- When? What time? – the young man turned pale.

The soothsayer shrugged.

From that moment on, he made it his goal to avoid what seemed destined for him by fate. Upon returning to Moscow, he ordered all beds, sofas, down jackets, pillows and blankets to be removed from his apartment. During the day, half asleep, he drove around the city in a carriage, accompanied by a Kalmyk housekeeper, two footmen and a fat pug, which he held on his lap. Of all the entertainment available at that time, his favorite was attending a funeral. Therefore, the coachman and postilion traveled around Moscow all day in search of funeral processions, which their master immediately joined. It is not known what he was thinking about while listening to the funeral service of others - perhaps he was secretly glad that all this had nothing to do with him, since he did not go to bed, and therefore the prediction could not come true, and he would thus escape of death.

For fifty years he waged his duel with fate. But one day, when, as usual, he stood half asleep in the church, believing that he was attending a funeral service, his housekeeper almost married him to some elderly friend of hers. This incident frightened the master so much that he suffered from a nervous shock. Sick, wrapped in shawls, he sat dejectedly in an armchair, flatly refusing to listen to the doctor and go to bed. Only when he was so weak that he could no longer resist did the lackeys forcefully put him down. As soon as he felt himself in bed, he died. How strong was the belief in the prediction?

No matter how great the misconceptions and mistakes were, despite everything, despite failures and disappointments, the search for immortality, the search for ways to prolong life did not stop. Mistakes, ignorance, and failures were immediately ridiculed. But the slightest step towards success was hidden in mystery.

That is why information about the successes that have been achieved along this path is sporadic, scattered and unreliable.

There is, for example, a message about Bishop Allen de Lisle, a person who really existed (he died in 1278) and was engaged in medicine - historical annals call him nothing less than a “universal healer.” He allegedly knew the composition of the elixir of immortality, or at least some method of significantly prolonging life. When he was already many years old and dying of old age, with the help of this elixir he managed to extend his life by another 60 years.

Zhang Daoling (34-156), also a historical figure, the founder of the philosophical system of Tao in China, managed to extend his life for approximately the same period. After many years of persistent experiments, he allegedly succeeded in producing some semblance of the legendary immortality pills. When he was 60 years old, the chronicles report, he regained his youth and lived to be 122 years old.

Along with these are other messages of the ancients. Aristotle and other authors mention Epimenides, a priest and famous poet from the island of Crete. It is known that in 596 BC he was invited to Athens to offer cleansing sacrifices there. According to legend, Epimenides managed to extend his life to 300 years.

But this age is not the limit. The Portuguese court historian tells in his chronicle about a certain Indian with whom he personally met and talked and who was supposedly 370 years old at that time.

Similar evidence includes a book published in Turin in 1613 and containing the biography of one resident of Goa, who allegedly lived to be almost 400 years old. The years of life of one Muslim saint (1050-1433), who also lived in India, are also close to this figure. In Rajasthan (India), there is still a legend about the hermit Munisadha, who in the 16th century retired to caves near Dholpur and is hiding there... until now.

Roger Bacon, a medieval scientist and philosopher, was also interested in the problem of extending human life. In his essay “De secretis operebus” he talks about a German named Papalius, who, after spending many years in captivity among the Saracens, learned the secret of making some kind of potion and, thanks to it, lived to be 500 years old. Pliny the Elder also names the same number of years - it was to this age, according to his testimony, that a certain Illyrian managed to extend his life.

An example closer to us in time is information about the Chinese Li Canyun. He died in 1936, leaving behind a widow who was recorded as his 24th wife. Li Canyong is said to have been born in 1690, which means he lived to be 246 years old.

But the strangest and most fantastic message from this series is associated with the name of the Indian Tapasviji, who allegedly lived for 186 years (1770-1956). At the age of 50, as the Raja of Patiala, he decided to retire to the Himalayas to become “beyond human sorrows.” After many years of exercise, Tapasviji learned to immerse himself in the so-called state of “samadhi,” when life completely seemed to leave his body, and could go for a long time without taking either drink or food. Similar practices were reported by the British who served in the colonial administration in India. They talked about yogis who, having thoroughly cleansed their stomachs and intestines, covered their ears and noses with wax and plunged into a state reminiscent of insect hibernation. They remained in this state not for a day or two, but for several weeks, after which they were brought back to life with the help of hot water and massage.

Tapasviji's fate may not come as much of a surprise. Centenarians are known who naturally lived to 140-148 years of age. There is nothing fundamentally impossible that Tapasviji or someone else, using diet and other means, was able to push this limit back by several more decades. We will talk about the amazing testimony of Tapasviji himself.

Once, he said, on the spurs of the Himalayas he met an old hermit. He ate only fruits and milk, and looked unusually energetic and cheerful. But, most surprisingly, the hermit did not speak any of the modern Indian languages, expressing himself only in Sanskrit - the language Ancient India. It turned out that 5,000 years had passed since he came here! He managed to extend his life to such limits allegedly thanks to a certain composition, the secret of which he owned. Reaching the age of 5000 years has not yet been “blocked” by any of the “long-livers” - neither in historical chronicles, nor in traditions, nor in legends.

However, no matter how fantastic such a message is, no matter how long the period of fifty centuries is, all this is not immortality itself, but only some approaches to it, distant approaches. That is why scientists and fanatics, philosophers and madmen so persistently continued to search for the elixir of immortality - a means that can grant eternal life. They devoted years, decades to this search. Sometimes a lifetime.

Alexander Cagliostro (1743-1795)

Many contemporaries believed that he possessed the secret of the elixir of immortality.

“The greatest charlatan and deceiver that history has ever known,” some say.

“A man who had unlimited knowledge and power,” others say

...A German provincial town with cobbled streets, traditional red tiled roofs and the inevitable Gothic style. Under one of these roofs, in the attic, in a fantastic environment of flasks, retorts and crucibles, sits a young man. He is busy with something no less fantastic than the situation around him - the search for the elixir of eternal life. However, the most amazing thing is that this man is none other than Goethe, young Goethe, who devoted several years of his life to a persistent search for the elixir of immortality. Not wanting to repeat the same mistakes, fall into the same dead ends and wander in the same labyrinths as his predecessors, he carefully studies the works of alchemists, looking for their most forgotten and hidden works. “I am secretly trying,” he wrote in those years, “to glean at least some information from the great books, before which the learned crowd half bows, half laughs at them, because they do not understand them. Delving into the secrets of these books is the joy of wise people and those marked by subtle taste.”

So the great poet, as an alchemist, a seeker of the elixir of immortality, finds himself on a par with rather strange people. One of them was his contemporary - Alexander Cagliostro. The greatest charlatan and deceiver that history has ever known - that’s what some thought. A man who possessed limitless knowledge and power, so others said.

If we decided to tell about all the adventures and adventures of this man, the pages allocated here would hardly be enough for us. In addition to the mystery of his origin and the unknown source of wealth, Cagliostro had another secret. “They say,” one of the newspapers wrote at that time, “Count Cagliostro possesses all the wonderful secrets of the great adept and has discovered the secret of preparing the elixir of life.” Was it not this rumor that made Cagliostro such a significant figure in the royal courts? So significant that the French king Louis XVI declared that any disrespect or insult towards this man would be punished on a par with lese majeste.

During Cagliostro's stay in St. Petersburg, society ladies, struck by the young beauty of his wife Lorenza, were even more amazed when they learned from her words that she was over forty and that her eldest son had long been serving as a captain in the Dutch army. In response to natural questions, Lorenza once “let slip” that her husband had the secret of returning youth.

The strange charm inherent in Cagliostro, the mystery that surrounded him, attracted the attention of the Russian court to him. The Empress’s personal physician, the Englishman Robertson, not without reason, sensed a potential rival in the visiting celebrity. Using methods accepted at court, he tried to denigrate the count in the eyes of those who were close to the throne. The naive court physician hoped to fight Cagliostro with the weapon that he himself wielded best - the weapon of intrigue. However, the count preferred to “cross swords” on his own terms. He challenged Robertson to a duel, but an unusual duel - with poisons. Everyone had to drink the poison prepared by the enemy, after which he was free to take any antidote. With the firmness of a man who has no doubt of success, Cagliostro insisted on precisely these conditions for the fight. Intimidated by his strange confidence, Robertson refused to accept the challenge. The duel did not take place. Robertson may have heard rumors about an elixir of immortality that his enemy allegedly possessed - it is possible that he, like many of his contemporaries, believed in it.

But the favorite of fate, Count Cagliostro, too often challenged her, too often made risky bets. In the end, he got "odd", and this card turned out to be the last one in his life. Cagliostro was captured by the Inquisition, imprisoned, where he reportedly died in 1795, chained to the wall of a deep stone well.

Cagliostro's personal papers, as usually happened in such cases, were burned. Only a copy of one of his notes, previously taken in the Vatican, has survived. It describes the process of “regeneration”, or the return of youth: “... having taken this (two grains of the drug. - Author), a person loses consciousness and the power of speech for three whole days, during which he often experiences cramps, convulsions and perspiration appears from it. Waking up from this state, in which he, however, does not experience the slightest pain, on the thirty-sixth day he takes the third and last grain, after which he falls into a deep and peaceful sleep. During sleep, his skin peels off, his teeth and hair fall out. They all grow back within a few hours. On the morning of the fortieth day, the patient leaves the room having become a new person, having experienced complete rejuvenation.”

No matter how fantastic the above description may seem, it is strangely reminiscent of the Indian method of returning youth, “kayakalpa”. This course, according to his own stories, was taken by Tapasviji twice in his life. He first did this when he was 90 years old. Interestingly, his treatment also lasted forty days, most of which he also spent in a state of sleep and meditation. After forty days, he allegedly also grew new teeth, his graying hair regained its former black color, and his body returned to its former vigor and strength.

However, although we find references to such “regenerations” in ancient texts, medieval and later records, none of them mention the composition of the drug used.

Should this be surprising?

Any person who has reached the heights of power begins to feel like, if not God, then a demigod and is very upset that, like mere mortals, he has a mortal body that hurts, creaks and aches in old age, like an ordinary commoner.

How many of them were there during human history leaders of nations who dreamed that they would obtain the “elixir of youth” and “bloom” forever.

According to legend, Genghis Khan, in his old age, learned that a scientist had made the “elixir of immortality” and ordered it to be delivered to him. When the scientist was brought, he ordered him to drink the offered elixir, and he drank. After this, he ordered the scientist to be killed with the words: “Now let’s check whether he has become immortal.”

Many Chinese emperors created teams of officials and sent them to Taoist monks in order for them to learn the secret of immortality. Then these monks worked in the secret laboratories of the emperors, conjuring a potion, delaying the moment of their own death.

In Europe, learned alchemists not only searched for the secret of obtaining gold from shit, but also searched for elixirs of youth or immortality.

Around the rulers there were many charlatans trying to make an adventurous living - fooling the heads of the rulers of the world.

Russia is no exception; the problems of rejuvenation worried the leader of all nations, Stalin and his successors.

In the thirties of the last century, numerous reports began to appear in the USSR about the longevity of the mountain people, that the mountain air of the Caucasus and special local food contributed to health and longevity. Stalin himself spoke about the long life of Georgians, who wanted to emphasize that his rule would not end soon.

The President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Alexander Bogomolets, took up issues of longevity. In 1937, Bogomolets founded a center for studying the phenomenon of longevity at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. One expedition after another began to be sent to the Transcaucasian republics.

It turned out that elders in the Caucasus are very old. Some of them stated that they were 120 and even 130 years old. In cemeteries, gerontologists discovered graves on which it was written that the person resting in the grave lived for 245 and even 300 years.

Stalin confidently awaited the results of the study from Academician Bogomoltsev, but he was unable to prolong his own life, dying at the age of 65 in 1946.

After Stalin's death, common ideas appeared among gerontologists (the science of old age) that the long-lived highlanders were nothing more than senile coquetry. All the people who declared themselves long-livers did not have any documents confirming their longevity.

In the Caucasus, being an aksakal is an honor, so the mountaineers added years to themselves, sometimes not even intentionally; they began to believe in their own invented stories.

As in the joke:

At a sex therapist's appointment, a seventy-year-old man complains that he cannot often perform sexual intercourse.

A sex therapist examined his manhood and said that everything is fine with you, and the decrease in sexual activity is due to age. Then the old man says: “And my neighbor, who is eighty years old, claims that he changes women in bed every day.”

The sex therapist says: “Now show your tongue.” Examines him. And he continues: “The language is in working order, what prevents you from saying the same thing as your neighbor says?”

Sometimes, instead of prolonging life, aging people were able to increase sexual activity by injecting them with a substance from the testes of humans or animals. Stimulation of sexual activity occurred. These experiments led to sad results: the person first felt good - young, then suddenly grew old and died.

The lack of understanding that a person lives in accordance with a genetic program, the change of which is still under the control of the Higher Mind, led to the emergence of the science of old age - gerontology.

Is it possible to extend human life?

The answer is clear - it is possible by changing the human genetic program.

Should I do it? A question that will concern our descendants.

In the meantime, within the framework of the existing genetic program, you can rejuvenate your body, and there are no secrets here: you need to lead an active lifestyle.

An active person feels younger and lives longer.

Active mental activity especially stimulates an increase in life expectancy.

Regular sexual activity, without overexertion, also stimulates the functioning of the organs of the whole body and increases the tone of an elderly person.

The body (genetic program) reacts this way to the fact that a person is active in the sexual sphere in old age: if a person can still do this, then it is too early for him to die - let him reproduce.

Whoever the human genetic program doesn’t like is slackers, so no matter how a rich slacker is treated, no matter what crap he takes to improve his health, raise his tone or prolong his life, his own genetic program tries to send him to the grave as quickly as possible, since he is no longer neither God nor people need it.

Regarding young people.

An active, regular sex life is good. But when the whole meaning of a person’s life is sexual entertainment, and there is constant artificial stimulation of sexual activity, this does not lead to longer life, but to premature aging of the body. The whole body should engage in sports (physical exercise), not just the genitals.

The brains should work not only in the direction of how to get more pleasure from sex, but also engage in other mental activities.

But the worst thing is stimulation of sexual activity with the help of Viagra or other chemical drugs.

Fewer pills in your life, moderation in everything, a moderate balanced diet, regular exercise, an active mental life and avoiding drugs, drinking and smoking.

If your activity is stimulated by the beauty of a woman, nature, a work of art or a thirst for knowledge, the desire to start a family and raise children or achieve any heights in your career - you are young.

If you cannot raise your vitality without resorting to drugs, drinking, smoking, coffee or drugs, then you are old, and it is time for you to buy funeral supplies, actively pray to the Gods and prepare for better life in the afterlife.

“I consider death before 150 years of age to be violent,” wrote academician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov a century ago.

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Recent scientific research has shown that human DNA is designed for 440 years of reproduction. It turns out that this is the theoretical limit of life. And how can one not remember the legends and stories about 500-year-old Tibetan elders. Perhaps these are not myths at all.

For example, dozens of facts have been documented when new teeth begin to grow in people aged about 100 years. Here are just a few of them:

Marya Tsapovalova was living in the Rehabilitation Center for the Elderly in Sochi when new teeth began to grow in her. Maria Andreevna was almost 100 years old at that time.
The Iranian Bahram Ismailia began to cut his new roots at the age of 128 years.
The doctors were also surprised by a resident of Tatarstan, Marya Vasilyeva. A long-liver from a small village became the owner of such unexpected teeth at the age of 104.

Dentists cannot explain this phenomenon in any way; they just shrug their shoulders and say it’s a phenomenon or an anomaly.

However, anthropologists have a version. They believe that old age is the stage of development of the body when self-renewal is observed. The luminaries of human science claim that the normal life expectancy of homo sapiens is 200 years, and cases of teeth renewal in old age are just another confirmation of the amazing reserves of the human body.

The search for the elixir of immortality, or at least longevity, has been going on for millennia. There are hundreds of recipes for “miracle potions” of varying degrees of delusion. And the victims of alchemists, false scientists and outright charlatans are innumerable.

Find the Holy Grail. Joseph of Arimathea brought the Holy Grail to the site of Christ's crucifixion and collected blood from the wounds of the dying Jesus into it. The blood of Christ placed in the Holy Grail gives immortality.
According to some Chinese beliefs, the elixir of life is easily prepared from the entrails of a turtle.
In antiquity, the breath of virgins was considered a sure way to prolong youth. Some kings, in order to envelop themselves in such a breath, surrounded themselves in bed with young concubines.
The Hungarian Countess Elzbeth Bathory took “rejuvenating” baths from the blood of murdered young girls in 1610. For which she was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Perhaps the only method of life extension that has truly proven its effectiveness was proposed by the biologist Ilya Mechnikov; it involves the consumption of fermented milk products that inhibit the activity of putrefactive bacteria, and this is one of the few effective ways to somewhat extend life.

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But it turns out that the elixir of “eternal” youth already exists! Since 2005! And it was created by Russian scientists!

“Death is inevitable, but growing old is no longer necessary,” said the famous Soviet and Russian scientist Vladimir Skulachev, biochemist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The researcher has devoted the last 20 years to gerontology, the study of aging. And the scientist has already made some progress. A unique substance has been created that can increase the lifespan of mice.

“People should die not from old age, but from other reasons. Thousands of scientists have studied immortality throughout human history. They all have one thing in common - they all died. We will live much longer. We will look young if we stop the aging program in time. Today, before the age of 60, people die from causes independent of age. This is not suicide by aging program. But then the work of the aging program begins. We have proven that such a program exists. The task of pharmaceuticals is to find a substance that will stop it. We managed to synthesize such a substance in 2005. We started trying it... First on mice, then we tried it on fruit flies, then on crustaceans, on mushrooms, on plants. In all cases there is a significant increase in life. From a young age we fed mice and rats this substance and watched what would happen to them. All the mice and rats that we fed this substance had an extended period of youth. Substances of this type have not yet appeared in world pharmaceuticals, so it is difficult to judge contraindications and other accompanying circumstances. Literally nothing is known yet,” Skulachev said in an interview with our colleagues.

Well, while the new, untested technology is being studied and tested by scientists, the long-livers of the Caucasus are sharing their secrets, already proven over centuries.

Dagestani Paizulla Isaev plans to live to be 250 years old. This is not a joke, he assures. The pensioner is convinced that he will be able to become the oldest person on the planet. A Caucasian aksakal allegedly revealed the secret of longevity.

At eighty-one, Paizulla Isaevich will give even forty-year-olds a head start. He studied the works of Russian doctors and chemists, and studied American and British scientific works. And he even wrote down his method of slow aging in a thick book. We have squeezed out the most basic theses from this work.

Seaside or mountain air. Here the pensioner is doubly lucky - he lives on the shores of the Caspian Sea, and the nearest mountains are just a stone's throw away.
Proper nutrition. The pensioner's diet includes only fruits, vegetables and selected meat. No white bread or sugar. Products are only natural.
Absolutely clean water.“Deuterium-free monomolecular” - to put it simply, melted. Isaev freezes ordinary tap water. The resulting ice is then cleared of the top layer. According to Paizulla, all the “extra” chemical elements are collected there. Then the ice blocks should melt on the silicon stones. This is the only water the family of a potential centenarian drinks.
Moderate physical activity. Isaev meets every sunrise on the seashore. Walking on sand and rocks barefoot is very useful, says the pensioner. And of course, we must not forget about morning exercises. The main thing is to stretch the spine and all joints. The elder developed his own unique exercises for the body.
Positive emotional attitude. The absence of stress and complete confidence in your strengths and capabilities will definitely help you live a long and happy life.

But a 121-year-old aksakal from Ingushetia assures that genes play the main role in longevity. Three years ago, Appaz Iliev was recognized as the oldest person in Russia. Born in 1896. That is, in the century before last. He witnessed the reign of Emperor Nicholas II. Interestingly, the passport does not have an exact date with the day and month. The fact is that in those ancient times they only remembered the year of birth.

“They told me that I was born when they finished planting corn. Previously, we counted time this way,” says the elder.

The old man's health is excellent. Just a couple of years ago, Appaz Lorsovich was working in the field. Without difficulty, he mowed the grass, looked after the cattle and even rode a horse. Grandfather has 10 sons and daughters and more than 100 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Appaz Iliev has led an absolutely healthy lifestyle since childhood. I never smoked, drank alcohol, or neglected physical education in my life. The grandfather eats only fresh and natural products grown in his own garden.

“I eat fruits from the garden, vegetables from the garden, I love dishes made from corn flour. Dairy products and meat are also our own,” shares the pensioner.

Appaz Lorsovich did not set himself such goals as: “become a long-liver”, “see three centuries”, “see the flourishing of Russia”... Everything turned out by itself, the years passed, age increased, health remained excellent. It was then that Iliev realized that it was all about genetic heritage. The fact is that the father of the now living old man lived to be 100 years old, and the grandfather of Appaz Lorsovich died at the age of 120 years.

117-year-old grandmother Alimat Mislimova amazes not only with her age, but also with her good spirits, hard work, tirelessness and almost perfect health. Attention! She easily, without glasses, threads the thread into the eye of the needle. I didn't believe it until I saw it myself. Therefore, watch the video and applaud!

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The elderly mountain woman clearly does not look her age. She herself says that healthy food and mountain air are the key to good health. Alimat's husband was a shepherd, so they only had organic products on the table. The centenarian herself devoted herself entirely to her children and grandchildren. She raised 4 generations of the family: 10 children, 30 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Grandma often gets bored. Young people at work, everyone is busy with their own affairs. Alimat Mislimova is engaged in needlework. He knits socks and oven mitts, which he then gives to his numerous relatives. The 117-year-old pensioner admits that there is no secret to longevity.

“Everything is in the hands of the Almighty and only he will decide when my life’s journey will end,” says the mountain woman.

By the way, it is women who lead the oldest people in the world! Here are his first 5 lines:

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Zhanna Kalman, 122 years, 164 days

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Sarah Knauss, 119 years, 97 days

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Lucy Hannah, 117 years, 248 days

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Maria Louise Meyer, 117 years, 230 days

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Emma Morano, 117 years, 137 days

It seems strange that there is not a single Russian on the list of the 100 oldest centenarians in world history. But the compilers of the rating emphasize that only “verified” individuals were considered. We need proof. Documentary. And a lot. Our elders only have a passport in their hands with the signature of an employee of the local passport office.

I know some of the long-livers of the Caucasus personally - as a reporter I did stories about them for television. Naturally, I also wouldn’t mind living to be 100, or even 150 years old. When communicating with older people, you understand that the key to excellent health is partly in nutrition and clean air. Of course, hereditary factors are also important. And yet, it seems, the main thing worth paying attention to is the philosophy of long-livers. Almost all of them try not to leave a state of emotional calm. They are not bothered by depression and stress. Elders are highly respected. Aksakals are wise and prudent. Young people come to pensioners for advice, they are listened to. Caucasians live leisurely lives, slowly enjoying every day they live. Maybe this is the whole secret?

Murad Magomedov

This was in the 18th century. One day, a servant of the legendary Count of Saint-Germain was asked whether his master really met Julius Caesar personally and had the secret of immortality. To which the servant calmly replied that he did not know, but over the last 300 years of his service with Saint Germain, the count had not changed at all in appearance...

Nowadays, the issue of immortality has not lost its relevance, and active work to find a way to achieve physical immortality is being carried out in all industrialized countries of the world.

If we omit the mythological history of the biblical Adam, who, according to legend, lived for 900 years, the Eternal Jew Ahasfer and Koshchei the Immortal, then the first popularizer of the elixir of immortality will be the same Saint Germain, a personality, it must be said, a very mysterious one. In the 18th century, popular rumor seriously claimed that the count was 500 years old, and in his castle there was a unique mirror in which one could see the future.

It was rumored that the count personally showed the headless body of his grandson in the mirror to Louis XV. In turn, the famous adventurer Count Cagliostro, who considered himself a student of Saint Germain, mentioned a certain vessel during interrogation by the Inquisition. In it, Saint-Germain, according to Cagliostro, kept the elixir of immortality, made according to the recipes of the ancient Egyptian priests.

The most interesting thing is that people who personally met Saint Germain in various parts of Europe described him as a man of about 45 years old with a dark complexion. At the same time, over the course of decades, the graph did not change at all in appearance. He was rich, well-mannered and had truly aristocratic manners. The Count spoke equally well in French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Turkish and Arabic.

Often in conversations with monarchs, Saint Germain mentioned the rulers of bygone days and in conversation often claimed that he had personal conversations with many ancient rulers and philosophers, including Jesus Christ. Saint-Germain died either in 1784 in Holstein, or in 1795 in Kassel.

But his grave was never found. And many aristocrats who knew the count during his lifetime met him more than once after his official death! There is evidence of the appearance of Saint Germain in Europe of the 20th century. Did the count really possess the elixir? eternal youth, is it possible?

YOUTH FOR A TYRANT

As you know, the most notorious sinners and satraps cling to life more than others. Historical sources claim that the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, the legendary Shi Huangdi, who lived in the 3rd century BC. e., was literally obsessed with the idea of his own immortality. His associates studied ancient treatises from morning to night in the hope of discovering a recipe for eternal youth.

But in vain. As a result, the upset emperor issued a decree in which he forbade himself to die. But he died anyway. Subsequently, many emperors of China tried to find the elixir of eternal life, but apart from unique rejuvenation techniques, nothing was invented.

Medieval rulers also became famous for their search for a recipe for immortality. All the methods they invented bordered on rare inhuman sadism. They say that Marshal of France Count Gilles de Rais, the prototype of Bluebeard, became more famous in this field than others. After his arrest, during interrogations by the Inquisition, he confessed that he had killed several hundred young people in order to make an elixir of immortality from their genitals.

In the second half of the 16th century, the Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory took baths from the blood of virgins to gain eternal youth and beauty. In total, 650 girls met their end in the Countess's castle.

BLOOD FOR THE LEADER

Like the medieval aristocrats, the first Soviet leaders wanted to live forever. In the 1920s, the famous revolutionary Alexander Bogdanov headed the world's first Blood Institute, in which elderly leaders Soviet Russia tried to transfuse the blood of young people.

However, things didn't work out. Lenin, unlike his sister, who underwent a rejuvenation procedure, refused a blood transfusion, calling it scientific vampirism. Perhaps the research would have been successful, but Bogdanov unexpectedly died during one of his experiments on himself. After his death, a disappointed Stalin ordered the experiments to be interrupted.

Half a century later, the leader successfully practiced the problem of gaining longevity through blood transfusions of young compatriots. North Korea Kim Il Sung. Having begun the procedures at the age of 65, the dictator lived to the very advanced age of 82, although he planned to last until at least 120 years.

THE GENERATOR OF YOUTH EXISTS

IN modern world There are dozens of promising methods for extending human life. But what humanity is waiting for is not a unique diet, expensive operation or cryo-freezing of one’s own body, but the invention of a device that, in a few sessions, would help a person completely get rid of diseases and live an extra 40-50 years.

Oddly enough, such an apparatus exists and operates on principles that are logically close to the cruel experiments of medieval rulers. However, now we are not talking about transfusion of young blood to an old man, but about transplanting a young biofield.

One of the presentations of the technique took place in 1997 in St. Petersburg at the First International Congress “Weak and ultra-weak fields and radiation in biology and medicine.” A scientist of Chinese origin from Khabarovsk, Yuri Vladimirovich Jiang Kanzhen, gave a report on his unique method. According to the scientist’s theory, repeatedly confirmed by practical experiments, all living organisms exchange with each other some genetic information invisible to the eye.

The process occurs using electromagnetic waves in the ultrahigh frequency range. The device, invented by Dr. Jiang Kanzhen, can transfer the biofield of young organisms to old ones, rehabilitating their DNA and stimulating rejuvenation. As a real scientist, Jiang Kanzhen experimented on both himself and his father - the result was both the youthfulness of the scientist himself and the body regeneration processes of his 80-year-old father.

It is interesting to note that, unlike many similar inventions, the discovery of the scientist official science accepted and even issued patents for several inventions. So it is likely that in the foreseeable future, every clinic will have a device capable of transferring the biofield of a young man to his elderly relatives, rejuvenating them. In this case, human life expectancy will almost double.

SCIENCE DOES NOT STAND STANDING

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Higher Academy of Clinical Hospital Dmitry Valerievich GLUKHOV agreed to comment on the possibility of creating a technique that significantly prolongs human life:

The elixir of eternal youth really has a right to exist. But not in the medieval sense. Research in the field of rejuvenation techniques is being actively conducted all over the world, and there have been significant advances in this area. In Russia alone, more than 10 rejuvenation systems and more than 30 rejuvenation techniques have been commercialized, not counting various dietary supplements and pharmacological drugs. The work is mainly carried out in the field of cosmetology and correction of the human immune system. Every year new techniques based on advanced, promising technologies appear. Thus, nanotechnology gave impetus to a new direction in rejuvenation - supramolecular chemistry. Development is proceeding quickly, and perhaps in the near future one of the researchers will show the treasured bottle with a cloudy liquid. Today, technologies of electromagnetic transformation, or modification of the human genome, have advanced the furthest in this direction. Again, many scientists are working in this direction in Russia. In my opinion, Jiang Kanzhen's work looks quite promising. It is impossible not to mention Professor Zakharov with his cell therapy and revitalization, Goryaev, Komrakov and other researchers. If they are successful and the methods are widely implemented, the average human life expectancy may increase from the current 65-70 years to 140-160 years. True, in this case the person will have, among other things, to lead a relatively healthy lifestyle.

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