“Creativity is essential in life”

Quizá por eso, en su latest book, The myth of life (Alianza) breaks down “a series of preconceived ideas, many of which are unfair, which generate discrimination and obscure that life can be an active, healthy age and which do not represent a burden on society”.

Please. Is life a good time to create?

Response. Creativity is a basic tool for active and healthy regeneration. Experiences accumulated over a lifetime allow you to approach things with unique cognitive flexibility, security and depth of knowledge. It is not only about the creativity related to the so-called beautiful art, but also about the interest and restlessness that keeps the mayors with a nimble mind and connection with the surroundings and never worried.

»In times when life expectancy was very short, great attention was paid to the longevity achieved by many artists, determined by social classes and professions and the papacy. It’s worth it to me an example of the creative longevity of the 89 years that Miguel Angel lived.

P. Does culture help change the way our genes work and reverse disease?

R. What we human beings manifest and display in our behavior, in our emotions, feelings, knowledge, thoughts and henceforth in our innovative and creative abilities is largely determined by the ultimate activity of what we call genes. Each human being contains 25,000 to 30,000 different genes that cause cellular and molecular activity cheese stands out from the rest more than 8,000 million human beings that inhabit the earth.

»we are we are Seres biologicos unique, never repeated. This is the inherent value of every human life at birth. Epigenetics studies how interactions with the environment and culture in which one lives have biological effects capable of altering the genetic activity of humans (including identical twins born with identical genes). Environment and lifestyle can influence and regulate gene (ADN) activity without changing the ADN sequence.

»As an example of everything, he talks about nutrition, sedentary life, physical activity, climate, contaminated environment, diseases, social relations and above all about its influence on people’s relations with education. Ex essay the sheer power of everything we rode and the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles to help reverse the aging process.

Epigenetic mechanisms

P. How do epigenetic mechanisms work to change the way we sense time in our bodies?

R. Perhaps only marine conditions can fulfill the need log a specific epigenetic relay for each organ and be able to easily know our biological history and knowledge of each of our various organs. Time inside our body is marked not only by the calendar (chronological data) but also by our DNA and our plasma proteins (biological data).

»Although there remains some doubt as to whether research results in progress point to a “real” biological disease or merely reveal certain aspects of it, certainly If you are looking for new ways to understand the diseasepersonalized medicine, disease prediction and longevity. In clinical application, without embargo, it is still under study and very limited.

P. If a man is what education makes him, what would be intellectually recommended for a good life? How important should culture be to 65-year-old mayors?

R. Now you know that during the normal aging process there are brain regions where it does not cause significant neuronal loss. It is a positive process that fundamentally affects areas related to learning, memory and other cognitive functions.

»From a cultural point of view, from the age of 65, to preserve and use this brain reserve, it would be advisable to go on trips (and integrate language learning), to pursue cultural activities according to taste and personal interest in art or science, whether passive or practiced (painting, sculpture, photography) and to participate in meetings in societies or clubs (for example, reading) with activities within a group of recommended friends to the cultural environment in which he lives.

Against edadism

P. Envejecer is only a matter of time. How do you explain edadism, is it discrimination or an attack on old people by their edada?

R. It is strange to me that in a Western society that regards the gradual increase in life expectancy as “one of the darkest consequences of humanity” there is growing phenomenon of social discrimination from the main people, precisely because of their age. It is contrary to the enormous interest in the medicine of biological education and the study related to its knowledge.

»The WHO informs you that edad is one of the first characteristics that everyone notices in other people. But when education is used to categorize it, it causes harm, injustice and lack of intergenerational solidarity, education arises. If it is a misconduct committed by quienes, inclemente, They will be at the point where they live and suffer from the same flawed social perspective.

»It will be important to educate our society about the need to adapt to the new biological reality. For that in the green center to be encountered andnor human dignity, to persevere and be respected throughout the world until death.