4 of unexpected factors affecting the duration and quality of life

Everyone wants to live a long time, and as much as trying to eliminate from your life impact of harmful factors, such as smoking, alcohol, lack of exercise. But it seems that all efforts can go to the dogs, if you, for example, were not born in the mesyatseEsli you're reading this on your phone, at the same time while driving down the highway at 100 km / h, then you probably are not going to live too long. However, for most of us the cause and time of our death remains a complete mystery. Even if we assume that we will not be read while driving will still be very difficult to predict where we're going to leave this planet and dive into the sweet embrace of death. Of course, we can only have a healthy diet, can quit smoking may try to stay away from any trouble in their neighborhood. But there are some other strange things that also affect the length of our lives. For example, we may soon die from ...

1. ... the lack of sufficient druzey

If you are a person who prefers to buy products in several different stores to avoid trying to get to know you as the sellers should start a conversation with you, the life of this world is clearly not for extroverts you. Not only that the society is infested talkative store employee, we still go on about the fact that loneliness - a lot of losers, serial killers and people pulling out their teeth in public. But take heart, introverts, because we have good news: your social isolation is also going to kill you!

It turns out that lack of friends can also shorten the duration of a person, as do the more well-known killers - alcohol and smoking. In fact, the consequences of exclusion outweigh the fact some of the well-publicized risks, including lack of exercise and obesity. In other words, you will be better at home on the couch rather than a jog, but only when you have a sofa in addition to someone else.

Early studies in high mortality accused loneliness. But recent studies have shown that isolation kills it. In 2013, the year the study of older people in the UK have found that social isolation increases the probability of death of an elderly person by 26% in comparison with the people leading a more active lifestyle in this age.

How does it work? Part of this mechanism is obvious: if you avoid other people, then you are probably one day find out that on the back surface of your neck grows incomprehensible bump, or that one of your limbs suddenly became possessed by demons, and should be immediately removed. And no matter how much your cat loves you, she is unlikely to cause you most when you suffocate.

But there are physical reasons behind the tendency of man to the fatal solitude. It is proved that physical contact between people helps reduce stress and irritability, while the isolation from society is a good way impair health. Let's not forget the fact that most of us tend to take better care of each other, when all around people. The presence of other people is often a factor in improving our behavior, by which we, for example, can get healthy sleep eight o'clock instead of one sleepless night. And if the thought of dying alone still gets you, then you should try to somehow cheer up, because the other thing that kills you, it's ...

2. ... depressiya

Just being depressed - is not enough. But depression is giving regular recurrences, can shorten your life by 11 years. At about the same term you will reduce the life, if you smoke a pack a day of cigarettes.

How does it work? There is no big secret that people are depressed suicidal. However, this sad "rabbit hole" may be much deeper than it seems. Recently, scientists have looked at what effect depression causes in the human body at the cellular level. They did this by measuring the so-called "telomeres" people, ie those parts of their chromosomes that tend to decline with age in size. Careful study of telomeres in a cell can tell scientists a lot about the age of the cells and humans. And the shorter your telomeres, the greater the risk of early death from age-related diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. The researchers examined blood samples taken from three groups of people: those who have never experienced depression, those who experienced a serious depressive disorder in the past, and those who were depressed at the moment of the study. After eliminating the influence of factors of unhealthy lifestyles, such as alcohol and smoking, they measured the telomere length of the subjects, and found that the longest telomeres were in those who have never experienced depression. More frightening was that the heavier was depressed, the shorter was the telomere test. It looks as if your body at the cellular level is able to measure the depth of your existential despair.

3. Do not clean zuby

During your childhood, parents, dentists and attractive dolls on television to lecture about the importance of oral hygiene. If you do not take care of your teeth, warned pupa, your breath will smell bad, and ultimately the dentist will have to clean your teeth root canals previously wearing a face mask to "plague doctor" in order not to feel your stink. But it turns out, this is only the beginning of what timely dental care can do for you. A cute dolls were literally screaming to you about the cold embrace of the grave, and not breath.

How does it work? Gum disease, or infection of the soft tissues around the teeth, affects about half of adults in the United States, obviously because none of them listening to pupae. And it has long been known that there is a link between gum disease and cardiovascular disease, which today are the most effective killers. The question has always been whether this relationship is causal, or whether it is explained by the fact that the actions which increase the risk of inflammation of the gums (such as poor nutrition) are also bad for your heart. But now at least there is some evidence that neglecting the care of the gums, you can spoil your heart. This year, it reported one experiment in which the researchers infected mice by several types of bacteria that cause inflammation of the gums, and then began tracking caused by inflammation. Gradually, the mouse began to show growth of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as inflammation and high cholesterol. In addition, the mouse did not do anything that would subject them to the risk of developing heart disease. They did not smoke small cigarettes. And do not even experience stress at work. All this suggests that gum disease are dangerous by themselves, and may be enough to deal with your heart. So it makes sense to start flossing.

4. Having not in mesyatse

If you are currently pregnant with one child or two, and you plan to give birth in the next few months, we have good news: your children can live outrageously long. According to a study conducted by the University of Chicago, people who have lived to be a hundred years old, born in September or October. Other studies in Denmark and Austria also found greater life expectancy of children born in the autumn months, while in the Southern Hemisphere, you probably will live longer if you are born in March, April or May.

And by the way, it's not just about a long life. Autumn children seem to be better in everything: children born in the spring, longer suffer from digestive disorders, diabetes, and the first type of schizophrenia.

How does it work? Nobody knows for sure why autumn children live longer. But there is another theory related to vitamin D levels during pregnancy. Usually, people get this vitamin through the sunlight. This means that the children until autumn births are literally bathed in the "vitamin of grace" in the past six months or so. The share of the spring children accounts for more dark days, and it can somehow impact on their health in the long term.

Another possible factor - the diet. People who lived to 100 today, were born in a time when such things as freezing and transporting frozen food has not reached today's standards. So that babies who were in the womb for a few summer months when fruits and vegetables are readily available, can make life better than kids whose mothers lived in a poor diet with vitamins winter. So if you are one of those people who survive the winter only at the expense of instant noodles, because they are too lazy to go to the store and buy a normal meal, think about it again. Otherwise, your children can die young.

via factroom.ru

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