Age–related aging of the body is an unnatural process for humans. As Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the Nobel Prize laureate in physiology, said: “The death of a person before the age of 150 is a violent death.”
There are enough examples of centenarians in history: the English peasant Thomas Par lived 152 years, the Azerbaijani collective farmer Mahmud Bagir Oglu Eyvazov – 152 years, the Chinese herbalist Li Qingyun – 256 years (he left behind 180 descendants in 11 generations).
To date, there are discoveries indicating that a cell cycle is embedded in the cell of the human body, which allows a person to live indefinitely. Studying the possibility of immortality of the body, in 1985, scientists discovered the enzyme telomerase, which actively builds the ends of telomeres (areas at the ends of chromosomes, the shortening of which leads to the process of cellular aging of the body). This enzyme was first found in unicellular organisms. Then it was detected in tumor cells. And even later in the ovaries, that is, the germ cells.
George Otto Gay, professor, cell biologist, experimentally proved that cells with the active enzyme telomerase simply ignore the phenomenon of aging of the body. He took cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks, who died in the 30s of the 20th century, which still continue to divide successfully in an artificial nutrient medium, despite the fact that Henrieta has been dead for a long time. They are called HeLa cells. In 1960, it was discovered that these cells feel good not only in terrestrial conditions, but also in weightlessness, in space.
Back in the late 19th century, Karl Maximovich Baer, a naturalist, concluded that what a cell consists of can live forever and, accordingly, a human cell too. There are cases when people in old age, for unexplained reasons, begin to completely rejuvenate their bodies. And the impetus for drastic changes are changes in the genetic structures of the body. And, for example, dentists know many cases of the "third change of teeth", when the very old suddenly began to cut teeth like babies, or grew 3-4 times.
Friedrich Leopold August Weissmann, a German zoologist, wrote that germ cells are essentially immortal because germ plasma can survive for millions of years. Alexis Carrel, a well–known cell culture specialist, surgeon, and Nobel Prize winner, proved that aging of the human body is not the result of processes occurring at the cellular level. Therefore, aging as such is completely unnatural for the human body as a highly organized being. Because inside it there are programs and a whole system of protection against biological death.
So if our body is not programmed to age and die, then what wears it out faster than it has time to renew? What are we doing wrong?
