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Not only the Ministry of Health, but also the statistics recorded that the life expectancy in our country has increased - now it is 72.6 years. 

Is it possible to trust Rosstat? Also what it is necessary to do, to prolong the term given to you by destiny? Tablets to drink handfuls? Or, like Michael Jackson once, get into a special cell? It, however, it did not save. And what do scientists advise?

How to live up to 130 years? 

The Minister of Health said that the achievements of medicine will extend the life of a person to 130 years. And when will this happen? And will everyone live to an old age? 

S. Morozov, Chita 

Honorary President of the Russian Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Shabalin answers: 

- The maximum life expectancy of a person is 120-150 years. This term is laid down in our genetic program.However, not everyone will be able to reach this milestone. Each person has his own life potential, which is determined by his personal genome. When will learn to correct genes? 

- Recently, scientists discovered the "aging gene" and said that in the near future they will learn how to edit it.These high-sounding statements can be trusted? 

- The human genome was deciphered only in 2008 and only in quantitative terms. So far, only a few hundred genes are known, and there are 30-35 thousand of them in the body. For what the rest answer - is still a mystery."The genes of aging" last year opened almost every month. I think that these discoveries will continue in the future. Aging is a fundamental biological process that can not be coded by the work of one gene. In fact, each gene directly or indirectly affects the aging process. Therefore, you can not edit this process. 

- And what about the promised "pill from old age"? 

- This is a myth that unscrupulous people use for their own purposes. To date, there is no scientifically proven evidence that any drug can slow the aging process. Moreover, the creation of such a drug is impossible in principle. The human body consists of billions of cells. Each of them is more difficult than anything that was created by the human mind. In addition, all these cells are in constant movement and interaction - destroying one, the body creates other, more perfect. Therefore, it is impossible even to assume that a pill can be created that would stop these processes. 

However, we must admit that such - even deliberately doomed to failure - research can be useful. In the 1920s, there was a theory that blood transfusion from young people to the elderly helps to rejuvenate. Of course, in reality, no one succeeded in rejuvenating this way. But these works gave a powerful impetus to the development of transfusiology, which saved and continues to save thousands of lives. 

Which is more correct: Extend or stop? 

- But even at the state level, work is under way to extend life. 

- To prolong life and stop aging are different tasks. Extension of life is a more realistic and promising task, not only doctors, but also scientists of various specialties are constantly working on it. Perhaps, including their works have made it possible to achieve tangible results - over the past 100 years, life expectancy has doubled. It will increase in the future - by improving the quality of nutrition, the development of basic biology and medicine, the search for chemicals, the detection of certain ranges of electromagnetic waves that have a therapeutic effect, etc. 

- Is it true that to determine how many years of life a person has measured , it is possible with the help of genetic tests? 

- There are genetic disorders that affect life expectancy. These disorders are well diagnosed. In some cases, pathology can be corrected with the help of certain medical technologies. 

However, today even the most thorough genetic analysis can not give an answer, how many years of life have been measured to a person. There are techniques that allow you to know your biological age, that is, to assess how fast the aging process in your body is (how much higher or lower the specific data of the average statistics).The first method is the evaluation of physiological, biological, immunological parameters and their correspondence to chronological age. The second is based on the definition of the morphological state of the body according to the structure of biological fluids. This is a new technology which, by analyzing the structure of organic molecules, allows one to assess the human potential for longevity and determine how to improve these capabilities. 

Which part of the body ages faster? 

- It is believed that a reliable sign of a possible longevity is a youthful appearance. 

- Man's youthfulness determines the state of his skin and musculoskeletal system. But the organs grow old at different rates. So the skin can be young, and the heart - is already considerably worn out.

In addition, each person has a weak link - in fact, it is a bomb in the body that explodes at a certain moment.When this happens, a person dies - in a young, mature or even childish age. Why do hundreds of young people die in their prime? Perhaps, someone had a weak link located in the vessels of the brain and death was due to the rupture of one of them. 

A favorable sign is the presence of long-livers in the family. If the relatives of the first line have lived a long time, this increases the chances of descendants to longevity by 25%. In general, people who lead a healthy lifestyle live longer. 

- But there are also reverse examples, when a person does not leave bad habits in adulthood and still lives up to 100 years. 

- There are many such examples, the most textbook one - Churchill, who did not part with cigars until his death (and she came at the age of 90). 

These people were lucky. They pulled out a lucky lottery ticket - a powerful genetic base, which gives them a "security letter." This base is so strong that it neutralizes bad habits. However, in a genetic lottery, as in any other, one person out of a million wins. The rest receive interest on deposits made in their health. 

As for addictions, smoking is one of the most harmful. If this habit is developed at an early age, then the body has time to adapt to chemical loads and they do not harm it as much as those who started smoking later. 

Alcohol is an even more contentious topic. Someone it is absolutely counter-indicative, someone acts positively.But the abuse of alcohol is always dangerous and even with the most powerful genetic capabilities leads to early withdrawal from life. 

- What is the most significant factor for life expectancy? 

- Life expectancy is affected by nutrition, exercise, ecology, level of medical care, absence or presence of bad habits (see infographics). However, the supreme commander-in-chief of the organism is the psyche. All diseases begin with the head. A nervous man, angry with his emotions, kills himself first. There is a well-known biblical expression - "the spirit animates." In my opinion, the only explanation for why weak, but bright people live, despite their numerous ailments and sores, to a very old age, lies just in it. 

Expert opinion 

Head of the International Capital Markets Department of IMEMO RAS, Doctor of Economic Sciences Yakov Mirkin: 

- Today the question is actively discussed with which program presidential candidates will go to the polls. For which it makes sense to fight the new President  Russia? 

Instead of an answer, I will give a few figures based on the data of the World Health Organization and the World Bank for 2015-2016. 

Life expectancy (in years) in 2015: China - 76.1, Vietnam - 76, Turkey and Iran - more than 75, Malaysia - 75, Colombia - 74.8, Russia - 70.5 (2015), 72.4 (2017). We have the 100th place in the world in terms of life expectancy. 

The whole of Siberia and the Far East go to South Korea for treatment. Life expectancy in South Korea is 82.3 years - it's only 11th place in the world, and in 1960 it was 53 years. 

In the USSR, she at that time was much more - 66 years. As in Japan (67.6 years). Today in Japan live 83.8 years. 

Here, in these figures, everything about the pre-election program, the sense of what we have been doing for more than 25 years in the country and with the country.