Ageing without diseases

Abstract

The most common noninfectious diseases of the modern world, including metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, depression, tumors, sarcopenia, and osteoporosis, share a mechanism of homeostatic disorders, oxidative stress. Another common feature of these diseases is the old and senile age of patients. These characteristics are linked with impaired adaptability, which develops with older age. In principle, this combination is inevitable but the environment can influence it like all life. The article presents some of the most wellknown techniques for creating such an environment (lifestyle) that could exclude or postpone (often for years) the onset of disease.