Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Unique Health Systems: Anti-Aging Gymnastics by Nikolai Amosov

Man of Experiment The entire Soviet Union was aware of the gymnastics developed by famous cardiologist Nikolai Amosov, but few people knew that Nicolay Mikhailovich never purposefully did physical exercises when he was young. His set of exercises was created for a very prosaic reason: in 1952 raging pain in spine made him unable to perform operations. In time the famous doctor invented his own way to overcome ageing by means of significant increase of physical activity. Within 3 months he gradually increased physical load on himself thrice. It was an obvious success, but later ill health overset Amosovs plans. Ha said: I managed to avoid heart attack, but I didnt avoid innumerous heart diseases. In 1986 Nicolai Mikhailovich was implanted a cardiac stimulator, in 1998 a prosthetic valve. He was shunted twice in 1998. Amosov successfully underwent the operations and started doing exercises again. Now his set of exercises contained 2500-3000 moves, half of them was performed with 5-kilos dumbbells. Amosov did gymnastics several times a day. Of course, the famous surgeon jogged not 5 kilometers as he did at the beginning of his experiment, but about 1,5 kilometers . I do jog, but no one can stop aging. As one of the outstanding persons said: Aging is not good, but it is the only way to live a bit longer Nicolai Amosov says. Anyone can envy him for his optimism. Health can be measured People think little about what health is. Health is the adequate performance of body organs, functions of which can be measured. But it can happen so that all indices if measurements are normal, but if a man starts training himself and worrying, he may suddenly find himself in hospital. Thats why a mans wellness should be measured according to the reserve capacities of the organism. For example, the heart of an ordinary man at rest pumps over 5 liters of blood, when a sportsman is training the amount of blood pumped over can run up to 20 liters of blood, while a detrained mans heart can pump over only 6 liters of blood. Some people intrinsically have robust health. But not all of them manage to keep fit. This happens because health is also influenced by the genes and the way of living in former times when a man had to move a lot. Now people have to perform 50 times less physical job in comparison with that 100 years ago! An of course, the health is influenced by ecology, though for an initially healthy man its influence is evidently exaggerated. Why do people so often turn sick? To my mind, if all people kept healthy life-style, 90% of them would be healthy. But unfortunately, only will-power helps us to maintain healthy life-style. Few people possess will-power What does constitute the way of life I propagate? Unlike people adherent to diets and special exercises, I propose nothing specific. On the contrary, I consider all these up-to-date methods to be fiddlesticks. All you need is minimum physical exercises. The organism of a man of any age requires 20 minutes gymnastics a day plus walking. To keep fit out organism requires an hour of physical activity a day, especially for people over 40 years old. The process of aging may start at any age (sooner or later), but all people need half an hour of active walking a day, as well as jogging and half an hour of gymnastics with dumbbells a day. Moreover the dumbbells are obligatory: 2-3-kilo dumbbells would be good, because just waiving hands is not enough: muscles don t work. It has been programmed by nature that muscle mass gradually decreases with age. And the muscles turn into fat. So, you have to exercise again and again. Dont make allowances for aging. Whats more, dont allow any body weight gain, which is a su re sign of eutrophy. A man should have low and stable weight. A man with quite developed muscular system can calculate the appropriate weight for him by subtracting 100 from his height. If muscle system is not developed subtract 110 from height. They say rural food is the best. Healthy and simple Theoretically you can eat everything you want. But for all that your ration should contain not less then 300 grams of raw and vegetable food. And the question about the importance of animal food is not the most important one.

Of course, meat contains amino acids, which are absent in other types of food and its hard for our organism to extract them. But theoretically out organism can do without meat. Meditation for Falling Asleep Do you think that 20-40 year ago our nation was stronger and healthier then today? Decline in health is observed because the nation experiences psychological stress. I wouldnt call what is happening now a real stress, but anyway its not normal. Frightening figures show that indices of age-specific mortality among able-bodied male in our country aged 20-60 are twice or even thrice higher then in civilized countries. Female live from 8 to 10 years longer then male, though the difference in their lifetime should make up about 2-5 years.

Stress-preventive measures are very important today. One needs at least to have sufficient sleep for relaxation. Every man has his own sleep requirements, but on the average 8 hours are enough. Recently I am trying to become familiar wit the meditation technique: 20 minutes I sit relaxed. At the same time it is important to concentrate on breathing. Meditating helps me to fall asleep. As far as alcohol is concerned, a small dose of it is even health-giving. But tobacco is harmful by all means. In your opinion, what is reason for cancer development? The number of cancer carriers in the world remains the same (except for the carriers of cancer of lungs). Moreover, the number of stomach cancer carriers even reduced. Cancer used to be one of the main causes of death (the 2nd -3rd place) and this statistics remains. But few people take into account that within the last 50 years lifetime has become longer, while cancer carriers are mainly elderly population. False Pills Work Wonders Taking into consideration out poor economic status, what type of medicine will be in demand in the society? The way medicine will be developed is difficult to forecast. On the one hand, we have no money; on the other hand, there are a lot of types of drugs. Here a very unpleasant nuance arises. Physicians are inclined to expensive medicine. A patient can be treated either by domestically produces, cheap, approved drugs or by foreign pills, which are just a little more effective, but 3 or 4 times more expensive. That is why the main task of the national medicine is to find inexpensive methods of treatment. As far as folk and official medicine is concerned, they shouldnt be set off against each other. You can use folk medicine if the symptoms are not dangerous. But in case the illness makes a lot of troubles the man immediately goes to consult a real doctor. An important part of treatment is psychotherapy. Psychological effect of a pill constitutes from 40 to 80 percent depending on the illness and the doctor, who prescribes the pill. This was found out by prescribing false medicine. Unfortunately all doctors concentrate their attention on illnesses. That is why its not easy to find a real expert in questions of health among medical men. But things change. The Other World Has anything changed in your attitude to religion? No. I used to be an atheist, I am an atheist now. But lately I abandon myself to the idea that the so called other physics, the other life, which is parallel to ours, does exist and sometimes penetrates into out common life. It can happen so that this other life secures and maybe even determines our real life. Not long ago I familiarized with the experiments of a well-known neurophysiologist academician Bekhtereva. This made me feel doubtful about my materialistic outlook. You certainly know that a man can see without eyes. Bekhtereva decided to find out how brain reacts to this phenomenon. She came to the conclusion that information is received not only with the help of receptors but it also passes over them. It may not even produce electric reactions in the occipital lobe of brain, which fixes visual patterns That is the effect of what I call the other physics. Did you ever come across the phenomena of the other world. Many people died in out hospital and almost every weak patients resuscitated from apparent death. My colleagues often asked the patients if they saw anything. But they saw nothing Research workers of the

cybernetics department I used to run were always interested in anomalous effects. An we used to invite various extrasensory individuals, but none on the experiments they performed at our presence didnt prove anything. As a famous physician Vadim Eugenievich Loshkarev explained any physiological action requires minimum necessary conditions with the help of which the action can happen. So skeptical perception of the outer world is the condition that impedes the action. From your materialistic point of view what transmigration of souls means? I repeatedly heard from different people that they talk to the dead people in the other world and even describe what they eat. But all these details about the souls eating apples and gamboling on the lawn are not interesting for me. The people used to live with myths. I dont believe in the existence of souls, but at the same time and what is more with the amendment: if the other physics exists, there is still a possibility that something remains in space Translated from: http://www.aif.ru/ The information presented by NaturalHealthWorldwide is intended for educational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any specific health conditions or symptoms. The statements made about the products of this web site have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Please consult your health care professional for suggestions and recommendations in using the methods described on our website.