Outwardness helps to live longer

An American study has concluded that long-lived people are more extroverted than others.

For many years, many scientific works have noticed a number of characteristics of people who live long, analyze their lives and decode their genes.

For the first time, researchers have decided to study the psychology of people who live on more than a century, and have discovered some characteristics, such as the majority of long-lived people who are often extroverted. more, or less neurotic than others.

Geriatrics researchers from Boston Medical University (USA) have published their research programs in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, arguing that personality affects life expectancy.

To reach this conclusion, the team of Dr. Thomas Perl, who led the study of long-lived people, interviewed nearly 250 people with 75 years of age, all descendants of long-lived people.

After the quantitative and qualitative analyzes of these interviews, the researchers came to the conclusion that in families of people who live long, people are less neurotic. Dr. Thomas Perl judged that perhaps it brings a beneficial effect on aging.

For example, people with less neurosis often better monitor their stress and those who live extrovert have more friends.

Thomas Perl said it would be interesting to add to these parameters of aging studies, in addition to the traditionally studied parameters, such as environmental and genetic factors.

The geriatric professor Francoise Forette of Paris-V University and the director of the French national geriatrics agency explained that in order to live up to 100 years of age, we must desire to live and be optimistic. Even if we pay much attention to eating when praising the advantages of a Mediterranean or Japanese diet, the spiritual realm is not underestimated.

Professor Francoise Forette said: "Stopping working too early is not a good idea. Because when we retire, we will do 10 fewer things than when we were working. This is absolutely not good for cognitive functions We must have a good brain if we want to live up to 100 years old. "

At the end of the 19th century, average men died at 43, and the average woman at 46 years old. Now in France, the average life expectancy is 84.3 for women and 77.5 for men. Each year, this life expectancy increases from one to three months. Thus it is estimated that one in two girls born in 2003 will live up to a hundred years later.

So the problem is not to find out if the increase in the number of long-lived people is a good thing, but to see how it can remain intact as long as possible while being able to can continue aging.

"Most diseases increase aging, can be prevented , " said Francoise Forette. Therefore, throughout life and even at a very young age, we must exercise to be able to slow down the aging process.