Section 360 Longevity (3)
Zhang Zhangmen said an ancient proverb in a free manner: "Hug Puzi" cloud - immortals or ascend to heaven, or live, go and stay according to their own ears. The immortals of the ancients, or the body with wings, change and fly, lose the foundation of people, and be inhumane. Humane should be willing to eat, serve lightly and warmly, pass yin and yang, handle official rank, smart ears and eyes, strong joints, pleasant color, old but not decaying, prolong life, arbitrary origin, cold and warm rheumatism can not be injured, ghosts and gods can not be committed, five soldiers and hundreds of poisons can not be hit, sorrow and happiness and reputation can not be tired, it is a noble ear. If you abandon your wife and live alone in the mountains, you will be cut off from human reason, and you will be neighbors with wood and stone, and you will not be enough. To put it bluntly, those who seek immortality are cherishing what they want today, and they do not draw on the rise to soar, but are better than the earth. If you are lucky enough to stay at home and not die, why should you seek to ascend to the sky quickly?"
Taking advantage of the discussion between the head of Zhang and the little Taoist, Xiao Fei whispered to me: "Actually, I think the longevity technique that the head of Zhang said is very scientific, because I have seen such content in a book before, it really makes me have, Daigo empowerment, the feeling of the cottage suddenly opened, that book is a bit long, I will be concise, concise and to the point, let you know more about these advanced doctrines and knowledge, so that Miss Ziyue, who has long hair and short knowledge, will fall behind the times." Wayne, the founder of cybernetics, said that the conditions for the continuation of life and health of higher animals are very strict, and the human body is a stable body, which is called homeostasis. The meaning of homeostasis is similar to the Taoist practice of qigong and the training of consciousness, even under all kinds of interference from the outside world, it is also conducive to maintaining the homeostasis of the living body, which is originally the specialization and expertise of qi refining. Human fibroblasts can only proliferate up to 50 times, and practicing qigong can cause the orderly biochemical and physical processes of the human body, and it is not impossible to proliferate cells for more than 50 generations.
All cells in our body have their individual consciousness and cooperate with other cells in the organ, but because the cells have their life span, and the human body continues to accumulate polluted waste, which weakens the activity of the cells, so the tissues gradually lose their function. The body's intramuscular cells can be regarded as tiny batteries containing a salt solution, which can be repaired and metabolized smoothly by enhancing the effect of bioelectricity. The Mahreich Research University in Switzerland has done a brainwave change test for qigong practitioners, and found that qigong can reduce the frequency of brain waves, but the amplitude of the wave has increased by more than three times, this experiment shows that qigong can make people's functions return to the slow waves of childhood, so that the waveforms of various brain regions tend to be synchronized, that is, the electromagnetic activity of brain cells is highly ordered, and the indicators of aging are reversed. According to a study by the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, the use of stem cells, gene therapy and other technologies to repair damaged organs in the body on a regular basis may make the process of human aging completely halt and even live to 1,000 years old; a report from the University of Illinois also believes that delaying aging is equivalent to delaying the emergence of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease and other diseases, and greatly improving the quality of human life.
After people are born, after the stages of growth and aging, they come from dust and return to dust, scientists believe that the formula of growth, maturity, decay and death is "irreversible", but the Taoist theory believes that life is reversible, Taoism says:ββ Since people can steal the yin and yang between heaven and earth by practicing qigong, we can lead the project of yin and yang harmony in the body, in other words, human beings can rejuvenate through cultivation, and the word "return" means that life is "reversible". Biologists and medical scientists study heredity and genes by starting at the bad stage of life, trying to repair cells and prolong the life of cells, but Taoists start from the stage of formation, and the biggest key to making the formula of life change from forward to backward is that we must let our body resynthesize the energy of the beginning of birth. Xu Xun of the Jin Dynasty said in the book "Lingjianzi": If the qi is successful, the muscles and bones are soft, the hundred passes are smooth, the fetus is prosperous, and the blood is strong. The fetus in the sentence refers to the initial element of life.
He pointed out that electromagnetism plays a role in the human body, and the birth and death, increase and decrease of cells are all manipulated by electromagnetism.
According to quantum physicists, matter is just a reflection of the projection of high-dimensional space in three-dimensional space, and under certain conditions, the projected reality can be more precise, matter is composed of particles, and these particles are constantly updated, and the higher the frequency and velocity, the more subtle the matter. Therefore, the increase in the body's energy will lead to some changes that cannot be imagined by traditional medicine. By practicing Qigong, we can restart the body's function of renewing energy, allowing the body to continuously accept new good energy and eliminate bad old energy, in other words, the high-level consciousness has the ability to renew the body's energy. Therefore, if human beings can establish an energy transmission channel with the universe and possess a delicate body through cultivation, death will be very far away from us. β
I smiled and said: "It does make sense, it opens my eyes, but why can't you remember which author said it, and whether there is a way of communication with him, whether he is handsome or not, it is really well written, you can see the wonder of the book when you see the leopard, I really want to write a long letter to discuss with him, if I look particularly handsome, I also want to visit it in person." β
Xiao Fei continued to gush: "Oh, you are good at everything, just what, I won't say it, it's really sad and angry, I'll continue the topic of immortality." I also saw a shocking, joyful, heart-warming good news, saying that people may have to live to 1000 years old, breaking through the limit age of people, so as to realize the dream of immortality, the latest scientific and technological research, in fact, aging is a bell disease, it is as treatable as myocardial infarction and cancer. Scientists in Britain and Russia believe that it is entirely possible, because people can live up to 1000 years. In fact, biologists have long discovered an interesting fact: that is, the lifespan of each cell has a certain limit, and under artificial culture conditions, when approaching this limit, even the best culture method cannot save the established fate. Fibroblasts, like the human body, can only reproduce for a maximum of 50 generations, and will inevitably die at that time. Others, like mouse fibroblasts, can only divide for 18 generations, turtle fibroblasts divide for 110 generations, and so on. Studies have found that the clock that controls the number of cell divisions is telomeres. Telomeres are duplications of DNA at the ends of chromosomes and are often compared to plastic sleeves that prevent wear and tear at the ends of shoelaces. These small particles do not contain genes, but they protect chromosomes from damage. The initial length of telomeres varies from individual to individual, but they can become shorter over time for each individual. In new cells, the telomeres at the top of the chromosomes are also shortened a little with each cell division. Just like a worn iron, if it wears down to the point that only a stump remains, the cell is close to senescence. Once the cell divides it, the telomere is lost about 30-200 bp (base pairs), and some cells in murine and humans generally have about 10,000 bp. When telomeres can no longer be shortened, cells cannot continue to divide.
People have an aging clock in their cells, which limits the number of cell divisions, which also limits the lifespan of organisms. Because the long-lived organism is formed by the division of a fertilized egg cell, it is divided into two, two into four, and so on to multiply, forming a fetus, and then dividing into a young man. If the cell can no longer divide, then the individual will have senescence. Recently, another study has found that people with a genetic disorder that accelerates aging have abnormally short telomeres, further suggesting the role telomeres play in the aging process. Therefore, telomeres are regarded by some scientists as the clock of life. So as long as there is a way to keep human telomeres intact and undamaged, humans can live forever.
There are also scientists who believe that the ultimate fountain of youth may not be achieved by chemical or biological methods, but by technical means. Futurist Ray Kurzweil once predicted that nanotechnology could be one of the means to achieve immortality. Nanotechnology-based microrobots can go deep into our human body to repair damaged organs and tissues, thereby prolonging the lives of patients, and I read the book "The Singularity is Imminent", author Raymond Cozwell boldly predicted that the dream of human immortality will come true in the next 20 years. What exciting news that he pointed out in an article published in The Sun that humans will have the ability to reprogram our own bodies, so that the Stone Age genetic programs in the body can be stopped, or even reversed. In this way, nanotechnology will allow us to live forever, he said. Eventually, it is possible that nanobots will also replace our body's current red blood cells and function thousands of times more efficiently than the former.
In addition to this assertion, he also made other very important predictions, such as the belief that humans would eventually replace any one or part of themselves with artificial organs. He also said that we will be able to last for hours without breathing oxygen, and that we will be able to write a book in a matter of minutes, all thanks to the development of advanced nanotechnology. In addition to that, virtual sex will also become a reality in the near future.
These prophecies of Coatswell may sound a bit like a fantasy, and may even feel ridiculous and difficult to accept. But in fact, these prophecies are based on the same fact that the rate of technological progress is accelerating exponentially. And we are currently near such a tipping point, about to usher in a new round of rapid acceleration of scientific and technological progress. "We can look forward to a new world in which humans may become cyborgs, and we will have artificial limbs and organs," he said. β
I couldn't help but say: "That's really the integration of man and machine, or we all become robots, we can achieve the flesh without rotting, but unfortunately if we all become robots, then how to achieve human reproduction? or give birth to robot babies? completely subverted my imagination, and becoming a robot is a lot less fun, and can't eat, can only eat engine oil, for a foodie, it's so painful to torture, and don't have to sleep, keep your eyes open every day, aren't you tired?" So if people can live to be a thousand years old, then I am still in a young state, and the tall hats of older leftover women can also be removed, but if you can live to a thousand years old, the benefits are really wonderful, countless, how many scenery you can see, eat a lot of food, talk about love many times, I really hope that science and technology will continue to develop, and when we are lucky enough to return to modern society, we can live to be a thousand years old, our parents are still young and strong, and they can get along with us for hundreds of years, just thinking about it feels extremely beautiful, and there is no need to practice the so-called longevity in ancient times so hardγ β