Old age is not age, but loss of muscle tissue. Part 1

Muscular dystrophy can be the cause of many human diseases

2025-07-31

In the middle of the twentieth century, the probability of living to 80-90 years of age concerned only 15% of women and 12% of men. And in 50 years, at the beginning of the XXI century, already 37% of women and 25% of men from developed countries can expect to reach this milestone in good health and clear memory.

Evgenia Radionova, founder and teacher of “International School of Massage”.

WHO's new gradation of age groups

Average human life expectancy has more than doubled in one century - from 35 to 70-75 years. That is, once life ended at 50 years old, and a person after 30 years old passed into the category of old men and old women, who lived to see their age. And this meant that the experience that a person accumulated during his life had no time to apply.

According to WHO (World Health Organization), the gradation of age groups has changed significantly in recent decades. Those women who in the twentieth century were considered to be of “balzac age” can now be considered young.

The new WHO gradation is as follows:

● young age - from 25 to 44 years;

● middle age - from 44 to 60 years;

● old - from 60 to 75 years old;

● senile - from 75 to 90 years of age;

● long-livers - after the age of 90.

Social conditions have changed, significantly affecting longevity. Food, clothing and housing have become accessible to the majority of the population, especially in developed countries. There, the average age of the older generation has passed the “old age” mark and is approaching the “long-livers” mark.

All the now living 50-60-year-olds have additional 25 years of active life. And now there is a generation that combines both youth and experience. It's being talked and written about more and more. This is a really sensational thing. There has never been a generation on earth that has lived as long as the current one. And there have never been people on earth who have combined experience with so much energy and vitality at the age of 50. Therefore, everything that is happening to this generation now is happening for the first time.

Continuation of the topic in the next article

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