Growing Older Without Growing Old
11 hrs. 54 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Rudi Westendorp
Author
Rudi Westendorp
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Description
Rudie Westendorp, professor of gerontology at Leiden University and director of the Leiden Academy on Vitality and Aging, analyzes the aging process and its causes from a broad perspective of modern scientific knowledge. What can we learn from people who stayed healthy throughout their exceptionally long lives? Will dietary restrictions or hormones, vitamins, and minerals help us? How can we preserve our life strength despite deprivation and illness?
The author systematizes the factors influencing the constantly growing life expectancy of people today. The book discusses in detail the social and political consequences of this “life explosion.” Particular attention is paid to the ways to achieve the most prosperous old age—how to grow old without growing old.
The author systematizes the factors influencing the constantly growing life expectancy of people today. The book discusses in detail the social and political consequences of this “life explosion.” Particular attention is paid to the ways to achieve the most prosperous old age—how to grow old without growing old.
Contents:
Life Explosion
1. The Rhythm of the Life Path
Accumulation of Damage
Everything for Offspring
Rites de passage
2. Eternal Life
Damage and Repair
Long-lived Families
3. Why We Age
Aging Is Not Inevitable
The Body to Be Thrown Away
The Price of Sex
Drosophila Aristocrats
4. Accountants of the End
The Size of the Insurance Premium
Powerlessness of Predictions
5. Survival in Harsh Conditions
An Extraordinary Find in Chad
Africa. Gold Coast
Resistance to Infectious Diseases
The Usefulness of Grandmothers
6. Increasing Life Expectancy
What Leads to Premature Death
New Causes of Death
Medical-technical Revolution
Every Week—More on Weekends
7. With Many Old People
Gravedigger
From Pyramids to Skyscrapers
Green and Grey (Gray) Pressure
8. Aging Is a Disease
Causes of Cancer
There Is No Such Thing as “Normal” Aging
Dementia as an Epidemic
Vulnerability
9. Biology of Aging
Premature Aging
Oxygen Radicals
Insulin and Growth Hormone
Do We Need to Eat Less?
10. We Need to Live Long
Living Longer With Disease
Living Longer Without Limits
Tattered Edge
11. The Quality of Our Existence
What Does It Mean to Be Healthy?
The Leiden 85-plus Project
An Assessment Characterizing Quality of Life
12. Vitality!
A New Stairway of Life
Optimism and Cheerfulness
Grey Is Not Black-and-White
13. A New Life Path
75 is now 65
Who Is Responsible for What?
Poems for the Anniversary Person
A Recipe for the Future
Conclusion
Appendix
1. The Rhythm of the Life Path
Accumulation of Damage
Everything for Offspring
Rites de passage
2. Eternal Life
Damage and Repair
Long-lived Families
3. Why We Age
Aging Is Not Inevitable
The Body to Be Thrown Away
The Price of Sex
Drosophila Aristocrats
4. Accountants of the End
The Size of the Insurance Premium
Powerlessness of Predictions
5. Survival in Harsh Conditions
An Extraordinary Find in Chad
Africa. Gold Coast
Resistance to Infectious Diseases
The Usefulness of Grandmothers
6. Increasing Life Expectancy
What Leads to Premature Death
New Causes of Death
Medical-technical Revolution
Every Week—More on Weekends
7. With Many Old People
Gravedigger
From Pyramids to Skyscrapers
Green and Grey (Gray) Pressure
8. Aging Is a Disease
Causes of Cancer
There Is No Such Thing as “Normal” Aging
Dementia as an Epidemic
Vulnerability
9. Biology of Aging
Premature Aging
Oxygen Radicals
Insulin and Growth Hormone
Do We Need to Eat Less?
10. We Need to Live Long
Living Longer With Disease
Living Longer Without Limits
Tattered Edge
11. The Quality of Our Existence
What Does It Mean to Be Healthy?
The Leiden 85-plus Project
An Assessment Characterizing Quality of Life
12. Vitality!
A New Stairway of Life
Optimism and Cheerfulness
Grey Is Not Black-and-White
13. A New Life Path
75 is now 65
Who Is Responsible for What?
Poems for the Anniversary Person
A Recipe for the Future
Conclusion
Appendix
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01:26
00_01_Annotatsiya
03:33
00_02_Soderzhanie
15:39
00_03_Zhiznennyy vzryv
03:29
01_00_Ritm zhiznennogo puti
07:46
01_01_Nakaplivanie povrezhdeniy
15:49
01_02_VsYo dlya potomstva
19:36
01_03_Rites de passage
02:47
02_00_Vechnaya zhizn
17:52
02_01_Povrezhdeniya i vosstanovlenie
12:03
02_02_Semi-dolgozhiteli
04:07
03_00_Pochemu my stareem
12:24
03_01_Starenie ne neizbezhno
16:40
03_02_Telo na vybros
08:58
03_03_Tsena seksa
09:51
03_04_Drozofily-aristokraty
02:59
04_00_Schetovody kontsa
09:22
04_01_Velichina strahovogo vznosa
06:04
04_02_Bessilie predskazaniy
04:08
05_00_Vyzhivanie v surovyh usloviyah
16:56
05_01_Neobyknovennaya nahodka v Chade
12:37
05_02_Afrika. Zolotoy Bereg
11:04
05_03_Soprotivlyaemost infektsionnym zabolevaniyam
13:46
05_04_Poleznost babushek
04:04
06_00_Uvelichenie ozhidaemoy prodolzhitelnosti zhizni
20:06
06_01_Chto privodit k prezhdevremennoy smerti
11:58
06_02_Novye prichiny smerti
11:26
06_03_Mediko-tehnicheskaya revolyutsiya
13:52
06_04_Kazhduyu nedelyu na uik-end bolshe
03:09
07_00_S mnozhestvom starikov
10:23
07_01_Grobovschik
07:19
07_02_Ot piramid k neboskrebam
15:19
07_03_Zelenoe i seroe (sedoe) davlenie
06:10
08_00_Starenie — eto bolezn
09:53
08_01_Prichiny raka
09:29
08_02_Normalnogo stareniya ne byvaet
18:24
08_03_Slaboumie kak epidemiya
15:20
08_04_Uyazvimost
10:42
09_00_Biologiya stareniya
12:29
09_01_Prezhdevremennoe starenie
08:28
09_02_Kislorodnye radikaly
14:51
09_03_Insulin i gormon rosta
08:12
09_04_Nuzhno li menshe est
02:56
10_00_Nam nuzhno zhit dolgo
12:56
10_01_Dolshe zhit s boleznyu
13:24
10_02_Dolshe zhit bez ogranicheniy
06:26
10_03_Obtrepannyy kray
06:03
11_00_Kachestvo nashego suschestvovaniya
07:29
11_01_Chto znachit byt zdorovym
19:40
11_02_Leydenskiy Proekt 85-plyus
08:45
11_03_Otsenka, harakterizuyuschaya kachestvo zhizni
07:13
12_00_Zhiznennaya aktivnost!
26:32
12_01_Novaya lestnitsa zhizni
17:52
12_02_Optimizm i zhizneradostnost
06:12
12_03_Seroe — eto ne cherno-beloe
02:53
13_00_Novyy zhiznennyy put
08:12
13_01_75 — teper eto 65
18:47
13_02_Kto za chto otvechaet
04:07
13_03_Stihi dlya yubilyara
17:56
14_Retsept na buduschee
02:33
15_Zaklyuchenie
00:57
16_00_Zhiznennyy vzryv
04:35
16_01_Ritm zhiznennogo puti
03:20
16_02_Vechnaya zhizn
06:08
16_03_Pochemu my stareem
02:52
16_04_Schetovody kontsa
10:52
16_05_Vyzhivanie v surovyh usloviyah
06:39
16_06_Uvelichenie ozhidaemoy prodolzhitelnosti zhizni
03:48
16_07_S mnozhestvom starikov
07:16
16_08_Starenie — eto bolezn
12:04
16_09_Biologiya stareniya
06:21
16_10_Nam nuzhno zhit dolgo
05:28
16_11_Kachestvo nashego suschestvovaniya
08:35
16_12_Zhiznennaya aktivnost!
04:45
16_13_Novyy zhiznennyy put
