The doctor believes he can live up to 150 years old

A doctor less than 40 years old believes he can live up to 150 years old and people will live longer than expected thanks to medical progress.

Hope to extend the life of the young doctor

Alex Zhavoronkov, 37, is currently the director of the Aging Research Organization in the UK. He said that medical advances and the widespread use of antibiotics meant that life expectancy would be higher than expected.

Zhavoronkov uses 100 medicines every day, daily exercise, regular health checks, blood and cell biochemical control. Zhavoronkov simultaneously vaccinated and declared to abandon marriage, children or material assets to focus on anti-aging research.

Alex Zhavoronkov is also a professor at the Moscow, Russia Institute of Physics and Technology and heads a regenerative medicine laboratory.(Photo: Telegraph)

According to Telegraph, Zhavoronkov's comment came a few weeks after Austrian experts declared that the aging period only came after age 74, thanks to medical advances.

"I think even people over the age of 70, who have good health, still have a chance to live up to the age of 150. All those over a hundred years old who live today have gone through difficult times, when Antibiotics are not available and our understanding of human biological characteristics is not much different from the Stone Age, "Zhavoronkov said.

According to this expert, their lifespan is mainly due to luck and other factors such as genetics . Meanwhile, we can now see the results of biomedical research and gradually reduce the mortality rate due to many diseases and at the same time prolong the healthy life. He believes that within 2-3 years, experts will come up with effective pharmacological solutions, helping people to be younger and healthier until medical advances in the field of regeneration and emergence occur. Life of gene therapy prolongs life.

For Zhavoronkov, the biggest "culprit" of aging is not biological factors, but economic, social, behavioral factors, in other words, the most difficult problem to solve is aging on the mind. physical.

Zhavoronkov said that medical and technological progress will prolong people's lives. In the last century, the life expectancy of people in developed countries was even double that of the previous period despite no intervention. Therefore, unless humanity's civilization suffers a great shock from a catastrophic event, such as the global economic crisis, bioterrorism or religious breakdown, many people will live long and play the role. Positive game in the evolution of humanity.