One of the most goals in the history of mankind is longevity. All the world alchemists were searching for the 'elixir of life' and the powers of all the caravans sent researchers looking for the secret recipes longevity. In particular, the East is rich legends of fantastic old people, especially India and China. Thus, in the old Vedic scriptures mention the people who have experienced an incredible few thousand years, and the Altai Mountains in China are placed Taoist sages who also claim that some writings, knew the secret of long life. More recently, the best known example of Chinese Li Ching Yun, for which New York Times of 6 svibnja 1933rd year, he wrote that he died at the age of 197 years and in another world He saw even 23 women and 180 other relatives who survived. There were allegations that he had experienced 256 years, and launched the stories about the plants used, and breathing techniques that should be paramount in achieving the state of consciousness in which one can extend lifespan. Twentieth century records and Tapasviji Maharaja, an Indian mystic who died in the 1955th in Kakinada, and say that he had experienced 198 years. With him was inevitable Tat Wale Baba, who was killed in Rishikesh, in the old age of 132 years which, however, it was not visible on his body.
Li Ching Yun
Elixir of Youth
Western Europe recorded an incredible age of the characters such as Count St. Germainea and the French alchemist Nicholas Flamela. The first was recorded as a brilliant musician, spy, freemason, conversationalist, and alchemist who supposedly mastered the biggest secret of all secrets - alchemical route to immortality. Even Voltaire, and I said to him: "He is a man who knows everything and never dies." Numerous bills say that for decades appeared in courts throughout Europe, and always looked the same as men in their early forties. About your secret not comment, but historians pretty sure that Mary Antoinette predicted tragic end. According to some sources, was buried, ultimately, the North German town of Eckernförde, in a coffin of silver. When after many years, opened the tomb and coffin in it, in it there was none! St. Germaine wrote only one piece, "Sankt Trinosophy" ("Holy trinozofija"), whose original is kept in a museum in Troyes. It describes in detail what is arguably the journey through the solar system in which it noted 'the blue planet Earth as it really looks like the universe and the planets that rotate. Known for its statement that "those who explore the pyramids as I researched them I come into possession of great knowledge." Nicholas Flamel was, apparently, from a Spanish Jew learned two secrets: how to make gold from mercury and how to prolong life indefinitely. The fact is that Flamel, or a humble clerk, suddenly began to build a costly church and assist the poor in Paris. Although the date of his death quite clear, as the place where lies, mitoljupci constructed the story acted as his own death and went to the East.
Širali Mislimov, which has proven odoživio 167 years and is considered the oldest man to whom sui reliable sources have confirmed that it is really lived so long
Devraha Baba reportedly experienced 800 years
Secrets of the Himalayas
I wanted to more closely examine the myths about the phenomenal age of Yogi and I had that luck. Some six miles outside of one of the seven sacred cities of India, Vrindabana lived Devraha Baba, a saint who is not down with their wooden platforms that only now and then slid into the water of the river Jamuna, and he bathed. Every day he went to the weight of five hundred men who would sing bhajans (holy songs), and sought an opinion from him for everything from spiritual matters and advice about marriage and work. I arrived to its platform a hot afternoon and immediately noticed that he kept two armed policemen came to him in care of young yogis who reminded me irresistibly rastafarijance. Before my arrival at Yogi enigmatic, from various sources I have tried to find out how much could really be a star. Swami Rama, the yogi who became famous in the U.S., in his book stated figure of 180 years, other written records 200, other, mostly related to the religious sect, a whopping 800, and one forest engineer with the institute in the Himalayas a mere 135 years. When Babe I led a student from Mathura, so I used this opportunity to my temporary translator ask what he thinks about jogijevoj age. In the beginning, showed no desire to declare that a little later said he believed the Devraha Baba in the late nineties.
Tat Wale Baba, the famous Indian yogi who legend claims that he was killed at the age of 132 years
I began to realize that it is actually impossible to separate legend from fact. I decided to ask him how old it is. When he translated what I know the answer to one English word - infinity (infinity). Of course, I asked for clarification and got him, yoga is all he remembers a past life, not only in the flesh but to the very beginnings of consciousness in its elemental form. So, in his mind all this is connected to one memory. It was not the answer to my query as star in this body and I continued with the question of how can someone be so old. He said something that has not been very clear: we draw strength from the Jamuna river sand and repeat the mantra of the god of black bodies, Rama. "If nothing else, I saw Devraha Babu, a man who may have been a fantastic star. He died in 1989. year. Scientifically confirmed record was Azerbajdžanac Wider Mislimov who suffered 167 years, followed by France's Jeanne Calment (1875-1997) with 122 years Okinavljan Shigechiyo Izumi (1865-1986) 120 years, and Christian Mortensen (1882-1998) with 115 years, and very much centenarians found in the Hunza Valley in Pakistan, the village of Vilcabamba in Ecuador and some regions of Armenia and a small area of Australia. They are mostly there for interpretation. These data are consistent with the conviction of geneticists to the maximum life span of today's man is around 120 years. Mention Christian Mortensen until the end of life, smoking cigarettes, which prompted some to conclude that longevity really depends on the genes rather than lifestyle. Of course, this far-reaching conclusion is not yet proven true.
Faith for a long life Dr. Roy Walford, a California pathologist and author of the bestselling diet for longevity, he said that among the people of Hunza is a trace mineral found in the white water called glacial milk, which is created by mountain streams on the way to the valley walls are washed . Walford became famous when a low caloric food bred mice that have experienced age which corresponded to 180 human years. An autopsy showed that they had fully preserved vascular.Relatively recently published a revolutionary research geneticists and other experts Gerontology. Specifically, on three mutually distant places (Okinawa, Sardinia, California) on a very narrow area there is a place where nearly every resident centenarian! Long-term studies have revealed something fascinating: on Okinawa is the cause of this one detail in the diet, in a small place in California, a religious cult that eliminating smoking, alcohol and meat, and religious life is designed to exclude all the stress. Most fascinating case of a small village in Sardinia, where the game long isolation occurred only positive cases of incest and indirect effect genes play that had resulted - longevity. Genes villagers are unique in the world and Massage experience and those who leave the village with 20 or 30 years! Well, the genes related with them. It is interesting that recently some scientists dispute the claim that the source of longevity Okinavljana calcium from coral, which is ubiquitous in the sea around the island. In fact, careful studies have shown that Okinavljani actually entered the body on average less calcium than Americans, but because the whole life of eating low-calorie foods, fish and soybeans, and they move much more than Westerners. In addition, attention is paid to the elderly has been exemplary, is a comfortable old age and people live longer. And Ayurvedic medicine recognizes the powder of coral, which called praval bhasma, very healthy, but it does not stand out as an important factor for the length of life.
Castle in the center of the Hunza Valley in Pakistan, which is thought to have been the seat of centenarians who have suffered due to so-called old age. Glacial Milk
Bear bile
In a similar category includes Nepali egzudat shilajit from rocks. It is rich in so-called black powder. fulvičnom acid, which by itself does not act on the human body, but it represents what is called the "biological amplifier of action." In other words, shilajit significantly improves the function of useful substances that enters the body, such as vitamins, phytosterols and antioxidants. Shilajit has a reputation as an aphrodisiac, sexual enhancers can, and is considered to be rejuvenating effect. According to some Vaidya (Ayurveda doctors, Indian traditional medicine, remark), this unusual natural product for which the legend says that one species of monkeys from the base extends the life of the Himalayas, especially effective when it is mixed with powdered roots of Ashwagandha. But, that argument can not specify some solid scientific evidence as well as for the bear bile enormously popular in Asia, which is regarded as the genuine elixir of youth. This obsession with many bears stood head. It is also untried stories related to shovel the horns of deer, soup and a kind of turtle vacchu, root iđirota that supposedly promotes the work of brain cells and is known in our traditional medicine. Longevity in the East commonly associated with the techniques prolonged retention of breath. Ancient Indian file Patanjali Yoga Sutra says that those who skip a thousand dahova can stop aging and a Chinese Taoist documents also discussed ways to keep the breath and saliva of manipulation that can influence the speed of aging. Although rumors about the powers that be achieved by such methods on the verge of science fiction was never carried out serious scientific research that confirmed the connection between breath holding techniques and speed of the aging of human cells. For some time researchers have tried to find a link between longevity and antioxidant intake to the body. It was a real hit for years, hardly anyone could resist the thesis of substances in the cells collected by free radicals and prevent their rapid aging. Only recently, Dr. Christian Gluud announced the result of extensive research on as many as 67 researchers, 200 000 patients. Long-term verification of optimistic theories about the longevity associated with a regular intake of antioxidants showed something unexpected. Apparently, though undoubtedly healthy, antioxidants do not significantly affect the lifespan of people. This may be disappointing, but as a consolation for the information arrives to the "antioxidants as part of a healthy regime of diet and life can still favorable impact on quality of life and ultimately to its length. The final paragraph of Sciences about the actual role of antioxidants in extending life should obviously take some time.
