In 1930, the New York Times published an article about a Chinese man who lived to be 256 years old, married 23 wives and had 108 children.
Everyone knows that human aging is inevitable and irreversible. According to the World Health Organization, Japan and Switzerland are the top countries for life expectancy for both sexes, with an average of 83.5 years. The longest officially recorded human lifespan from the South of France is a woman named Jeanne Louise Calment , who lived to 122 years.
However, history has recorded a story about a man in China who lived to be more than 200 years old . Although there is still a lot of conflicting information, there are still a lot of stories and rumors that spread everywhere and even made it to foreign magazines like the New York Times.
Mr. Ly Thanh Nguyen is said to have lived to 256 years old.
According to an article published in the New York Times in 1930, the man’s name was Li Ching-Yuen (Ly Thanh Nguyen) who lived to be 256 years old.
In 1928, Professor Wu-Chung Chieh of Chengdu University discovered documents to congratulate Mr. Li Qingyuan’s 150th birthday in 1827, and there were even many documents to congratulate him on his 150th birthday. 200 in 1877.
Based on some records, Mr. Li was born in 1677 in Qijiang, Sichuan and died in 1933. He was a scholar of traditional Chinese medicine in the late Qing dynasty.
His father was a farmer who often went to get medicine for a living. As an adult, Ly Thanh Nguyen, like his father, began to wander around. In 60 years, he has traveled more than half of China. Wherever he went, he also collected herbs associated with selling drugs, learning about customs and especially the health of middle-aged and elderly people.
General Yang-sen.
In 1749, Mr. Li was 72 years old but still joined the army as a martial arts instructor. It is said that during his lifetime he was married to 23 wives who gave birth to 180 children. He himself is always in good health and rarely gets sick. Many people are curious about his secret to longevity.
In 1927, a general named Yang-sen in Sichuan at that time, curious about the secret of Mr. Li’s longevity, invited him as a guest. Mr. Ly Thanh Nguyen told the general about his health care regime in great detail. Deeply attracted to Mr. Lee, the general had a portrait photograph of him taken.
Describing his longevity secret, Mr. Lee summed it up in 9 words: “Sit like a turtle, walk like a bird, sleep like a dog” , while maintaining a peaceful mindset. He describes the elements that longevity requires from four aspects: sitting, walking, sleeping and psychological.
In 1928, Mr. Lee also wrote a book called “The Secret of Immortality” . In it, he shared another secret to help him maintain his longevity: practicing qigong. He proposed a “flexible, harmonious and harmonious yin-yang” method to exercise and implement 3 habits:
Li’s disciples also reported that he was often found just sitting in his room, meditating and practicing breathing techniques.
He had 23 wives and 108 children. (Illustration).
According to historical records, Mr. Lee’s living habits were different from ordinary people. He doesn’t drink or smoke, eats well, and goes to bed early. When he slept, he closed his eyes, put his hands on his knees, raised his head, and did not move for several hours.
He also has a habit of using a small tube attached to his finger to protect the nail. When the nails are long, he will trim them and store the excess in the box. Normally, he spoke very little and only spoke when it was necessary.
To this day, stories about him are still circulated everywhere. There is still a lot of debate about whether there is a person who actually lives to be over 200 years old, but experts all believe that if people maintain a good, healthy lifestyle, they can increase their life expectancy. close. However, whether it can be maintained until 200 years old is still a question.
In 2016, a group of scientists announced in an article in the journal Nature that human life expectancy could be more than 115 years. However, in June this year, another group of researchers determined that, if lived in optimal conditions.
In animal studies over the past few decades, scientists have begun to understand the molecular and cellular processes that cause aging.
Jeanne Louise Calment, the world’s oldest woman on record.
In an essay in JAMA last month, Tamara Tchkonia and Dr. James L. Kirkland from the Mayo Clinic (USA) classified this process into four groups: chronic damage; cellular dysfunction; changes in stem cells that cause tissue failure; and finally cellular senescence, the accumulation in aging tissue that accompanies disease.
The researchers found that aging cells secrete proteins, fats and other substances that increase tissue damage and destruction. Research in mice showed that when these cells were transplanted into the knee joints of healthy mice, they caused a condition similar to osteoarthritis in humans.
According to S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois (USA), he believes that there should be a limit to human life expectancy – about 85 years is enough.
“Parts of the body, including the brain, are not designed for long-term use. We are seeing the consequences of increased survival time, which is an increase in Alzheimer’s disease, dementia. , joint and hip problems, loss of muscle mass,” said Professor Olshansky.
He is a proponent of prolonging health, not longevity. He added that we are all going to die and that there is no true scientist who believes in immortality.
Aging cells are very rare in young, healthy people, but after the age of 60, they begin to accumulate in more and more numbers, which means that the disease condition of old age appears. .