We all yearn to live longer and better, there are determining factors that condition living more or less years, as well as having a more or less full life. From the experience we have in the research of communities with a higher percentage of long-lived people, there is not a common and responsible factor in all of them, but there are a series of factors, some of them common and others specific to each community.
According to Antiaging specialists, these are factors related to a healthier life, better nutrition, lack of stress, regular physical exercise and the important role of the elderly in this society despite their age, with daily obligations that force them to be always active and always living in a family with the constant support of the whole family.
What other factors have an influence?
DNA has an influence as well. We know that the importance of genetics is around 25%, the rest 75% are habits. What is happening lately is that more and more importance is being given to how these habits can influence DNA through what is known as epigenetics, which is how these habits act on certain genes, activating or silencing them.
Regarding the debate about retiring before or after a certain trade or activity, it will be conditioned by the type of activity; it is not the same for a person who is dedicated to mining coal, as it is for someone who works sitting at a table. But in general it is always better to have an activity of any kind that forces you to have to get up every day with some objectives to meet and when you can not do some of them, look for others that are adopted to the possibilities at that time of each person. It is forbidden to have nothing to do.
In that stage of retirement what cannot be missing is the curiosity to learn new things, the illusion to do it and the motivation to achieve it. As long as none of the three is missing, the person will continue to feel young and that even affects the physical aspect. The person who takes care of himself, eats correctly, avoids toxins, exercises, is not stressed and enjoys his work, has a much younger physical appearance since the skin is the reflection of the internal situation of the body.