Translator: Juliana Cambiucci Reviewer: Claudia Sander
I would like to invite you, at this initial moment,
for a small brief experience.
I would like you to close your eyes.
(Sound of heartbeat)
Breathe deeply,
relax shoulders, arms
legs
Remember, you little ones.
What is the first picture that comes from you child?
What did you want?
A kiss, a hug,
play with the friends.
Breathe some more.
And now…
remember you as a teenager.
At this stage, we want to transform the world,
we imagine how our adulthood will be,
what will we be
IT IS…
Life passes like a blink of an eye.
Breathe.
Open your eyes slowly.
I’m here to share my moment,
My time, with yours.
This time, which is marked
by the initial moment in which we breathe for the first time and we
until the time of our death.
For science, life is the space of time
between the conception and death of an organism.
For Einstein, time is an illusion.
An illusion that separates past, present and future.
For others, every moment, every second is very precious.
It is the moment that never repeats itself.
Zygmunt Bauman established several reflections
about our modernity, this period of postmodernity.
He said that we live in a consumer society
and as we live in a consumer society,
we do not value the durability of things, much less people.
We equate everything that is old to disposable, obsolete,
for the garbage can.
This concept makes us believe that we only have value
while we are living in productive and reproductive age,
which is the time when we begin our professional career,
that we think of buying an apartment, a car of its own
if we are going to have children, if we are going to make international trips.
With the advent of menopause and andropause
and the proximity of retirement,
we begin to be afraid of this process of aging.
Wrinkles intensify, hair whitens
and we were terrified of old age and death.
These two themes always frightened me throughout my life:
old age and death.
I remember well that when I was 15 years old, I imagined that I would live
40 fantastic years and would die suddenly,
at its peak, without going through old age and its diseases.
I also remember why these fears came.
Because I saw my grandparents,
Maria and Clarice, sitting on their balconies,
old, sick, with the sadness stamped on the eyes,
with poverty clinging to the hands and suffering in the heart.
In Brazil, in 1960,
the life expectancy was that we would live 52 years of age,
That is, a year before my birth, anyone born would live for 52 years.
Today, life expectancy is that we live 74.
We have gained these almost 25 years of life because of the implementation
sanitation, treated water, advances in
and of potent medicines and vaccines
which treat almost all diseases.
We have earned these 25 years and what are we going to do with them?
We are afraid of aging,
because we associate that aging is to be old,
is to be disposable, is to be thrown into a garbage can.
If I have money,
I can be a beautiful, well-treated elderly person with few illnesses
and I’m going to be a happy old lady.
If I am poor, I receive as inheritance
a pack of wrinkles, sagging, blemishes
and an extremely old age.
The video that we are going to see next
was produced in 2012 and was exhibited in statewide network
by Instituto Ame Suas Rugas and the purpose of this video
it was showing people
that what happens to us throughout life is experience.
[How much is time worth?] A man throws himself to the sea,
learned early to fish the breadwinner with which he built his story,
your livelihood, your life.
What a father teaches never gets lost, does not go away or get old.
What is experience is what happens to us
and only what is done with the experience of time
time respects.
[In 20 years, 1/5 of the world’s population will be experienced people.]
[Respect your future. Be better today.]
We created this institute in 2008,
with the central objective of changing the paradigm of what is
the human aging in Brazil.
When I started my studies, my postgraduate studies
in gerontology in Brazil and Mexico,
I was sure that, worse than we grow old,
is to be afraid of this aging process.
When I left for studies in international books and congresses,
I thought for a moment that I could find
somewhere in the world the elixir of longevity.
After being in Cuba and getting to know the studies
of the centenarians who live there,
I discovered that there is no such elixir of longevity.
It does not exist.
(Applause)
Yeah. There’s no way.
We get old.
Today, I do not want to die any more, as I wanted to when I was 15,
because I have great pleasure in being alive,
because only those who are alive grow old.
But we have some problems.
Aging brings us a reliance on crutches,
like these papers that I bring here.
So, getting older also has it.
I would like to talk to you
about a work presented by the Brazilian geriatrician Renato Maia.
He presided over the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology
and he wrote the book
“Decide how and how you want to live.”
In this book he speaks of the health capital that must be administered by us
lifelong to have a successful aging.
The first capital to which he refers,
that we have to learn to manage, is the biological capital.
Biological capital is the
which defines us genetically with birth.
Therefore, it is very important that we know the family history
of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents
and we know if they have had any disease:
hypertension, diabetes, dementia or cancers,
so that we can understand and modify it.
The second capital to which Dr. Renato refers
is the social capital.
The capital stock also accounts for 25% of this health capital
and is related to the place where we were born,
what public policies exist in these places,
if there is public welfare and if it will meet
to our needs when we grow old,
if this public health system can also support us in old age.
If we had been born, for example, in Africa,
we would not live for more than 50 years.
We were fortunate to be born in Brazil and in southern Brazil.
This gives us a very important differential.
The other capital he refers to is emotional capital.
And astonish you,
it accounts for 50% of this health capital,
that is, it is one of the most relevant.
This emotional capital arises in childhood,
when we learn how to manage our cognitive abilities
and emotional, if we learn to overcome challenges,
if we have a tendency to be depressive,
if we are afraid of overcoming obstacles.
So how do I get a management
successful or not of these three capitals?
If I do not do good management, I ignore my genetic history,
my history … is not it?
I am not socially active,
I do not change the changes of the country I’m living in
and I do not understand either,
I may be a depressed elderly person, with many illnesses,
I can have moments of long illnesses, I can die with much suffering
and before the expectation of life, that we saw back there
who are 74 years old.
If I make a good management of these capitals
I will certainly have more longevity,
diseases for a short time
and we will certainly live above 85 years of age.
However, managing such capital alone is not enough.
We have to change, each of us, the paradigm of what aging is
so that, when we are all very old,
let’s not be obsolete
and do not put us in a garbage can.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1970 the book
“Old Age – The Uncomfortable Reality”.
In this book she denounces the silencing
against the elderly.
Nobody talked about it. They were hidden.
If in 70, when Simone wrote the book, there was this silencing,
today we still live with prejudice with people who grow old.
So there is no alternative.
We have to accept this process of aging,
because it’s much better and we can do a lot more.
Brazilians, almost all, reject the aging process.
Data from the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery indicate
that more than 800 thousand people per year
perform aesthetic procedures for modifying one’s own body
in search of a …
youth eternal.
However, people, there is no way to stop this process
which is normal and that is …
nice and we have to accept it.
The data of the age pyramids of Brazil
show that we, in 40 years,
we will have the triple of the elderly that we have in 2010.
In 2010 we are 20 million elderly people.
In 2050 we will be 66 million.
This means that we will have much older than children
living in Brazil for 40 years.
We have the data, the information, the scholarships.
What are my advice? What did I come to tell you?
Practice physical exercises,
eat products without pesticides, stop eating fat,
take vitamin every day,
eat gelatin, use creams with collagen,
make love when love comes,
have sex when you can
However, there is no right recipe for each of us.
Jessie Gallan is a Scotswoman.
She lived above 100 years.
What was her income for longevity?
First, do not get married.
She said men are bad for their health.
(Laughter) (Applause)
She also said that …
She also said that one had to practice physical activity and eat that little bowl
Hot porridge every morning.
I bring the example of Professor Hermogenes,
a great name for Brazilian yoga.
The 40-year-old found that he was terminally ill
with tuberculosis.
He made a radical change in his life,
went on to practice yoga and do meditation every day,
transformed his diet into vegan,
he did not smoke, he did not drink and he doubled his possibility of life
and died after 90 years of age.
I also bring the example of Leandra Lumbreras.
She is a Mexican who lived above 127 years,
very dear and she said the following,
Her secret was to eat chocolate every day,
sleep a lot.
I do not know why sleep, but anyway.
And she did not get married, either.
When I heard about Leandra’s story, I said,
I do not eat chocolate because I do not like it,
I’ve been married three times, I’m on the verge of death.
(Laughs)
And now the last example is of a Blumenau,
she lived here in Blumenau, Mrs. Mística Pereira.
She lived for 114 years.
Unlike the others, she married and widowed twice,
was the mother of 12 children.
Seven of her children died earlier.
Think, she lived 114. They died very young, at 90.
And her longevity recipe, what menu was it?
Polenta, pirão and fried sausage, kids.
That’s what she ate for a living.
For the religious, life is eternal.
Buddha, however, warned:
all that begins, one day,
inevitably, ends.
Eternity exists in the present moment.
So, enjoy this time between your birth and your death.
Yeah.
You thought I was going to bring certainties, that I would bring elixirs,
that I would bring longevity, that I would bring everlasting life.
I do not bring anything.
I do not have certainties.
The only certainty I have
is that one day we all …
we will
die.
Namastê.
(Applause)
I would like to invite you, at this initial moment,
for a small brief experience.
I would like you to close your eyes.
(Sound of heartbeat)
Breathe deeply,
relax shoulders, arms
legs
Remember, you little ones.
What is the first picture that comes from you child?
What did you want?
A kiss, a hug,
play with the friends.
Breathe some more.
And now…
remember you as a teenager.
At this stage, we want to transform the world,
we imagine how our adulthood will be,
what will we be
IT IS…
Life passes like a blink of an eye.
Breathe.
Open your eyes slowly.
I’m here to share my moment,
My time, with yours.
This time, which is marked
by the initial moment in which we breathe for the first time and we
until the time of our death.
For science, life is the space of time
between the conception and death of an organism.
For Einstein, time is an illusion.
An illusion that separates past, present and future.
For others, every moment, every second is very precious.
It is the moment that never repeats itself.
Zygmunt Bauman established several reflections
about our modernity, this period of postmodernity.
He said that we live in a consumer society
and as we live in a consumer society,
we do not value the durability of things, much less people.
We equate everything that is old to disposable, obsolete,
for the garbage can.
This concept makes us believe that we only have value
while we are living in productive and reproductive age,
which is the time when we begin our professional career,
that we think of buying an apartment, a car of its own
if we are going to have children, if we are going to make international trips.
With the advent of menopause and andropause
and the proximity of retirement,
we begin to be afraid of this process of aging.
Wrinkles intensify, hair whitens
and we were terrified of old age and death.
These two themes always frightened me throughout my life:
old age and death.
I remember well that when I was 15 years old, I imagined that I would live
40 fantastic years and would die suddenly,
at its peak, without going through old age and its diseases.
I also remember why these fears came.
Because I saw my grandparents,
Maria and Clarice, sitting on their balconies,
old, sick, with the sadness stamped on the eyes,
with poverty clinging to the hands and suffering in the heart.
In Brazil, in 1960,
the life expectancy was that we would live 52 years of age,
That is, a year before my birth, anyone born would live for 52 years.
Today, life expectancy is that we live 74.
We have gained these almost 25 years of life because of the implementation
sanitation, treated water, advances in
and of potent medicines and vaccines
which treat almost all diseases.
We have earned these 25 years and what are we going to do with them?
We are afraid of aging,
because we associate that aging is to be old,
is to be disposable, is to be thrown into a garbage can.
If I have money,
I can be a beautiful, well-treated elderly person with few illnesses
and I’m going to be a happy old lady.
If I am poor, I receive as inheritance
a pack of wrinkles, sagging, blemishes
and an extremely old age.
The video that we are going to see next
was produced in 2012 and was exhibited in statewide network
by Instituto Ame Suas Rugas and the purpose of this video
it was showing people
that what happens to us throughout life is experience.
[How much is time worth?] A man throws himself to the sea,
learned early to fish the breadwinner with which he built his story,
your livelihood, your life.
What a father teaches never gets lost, does not go away or get old.
What is experience is what happens to us
and only what is done with the experience of time
time respects.
[In 20 years, 1/5 of the world’s population will be experienced people.]
[Respect your future. Be better today.]
We created this institute in 2008,
with the central objective of changing the paradigm of what is
the human aging in Brazil.
When I started my studies, my postgraduate studies
in gerontology in Brazil and Mexico,
I was sure that, worse than we grow old,
is to be afraid of this aging process.
When I left for studies in international books and congresses,
I thought for a moment that I could find
somewhere in the world the elixir of longevity.
After being in Cuba and getting to know the studies
of the centenarians who live there,
I discovered that there is no such elixir of longevity.
It does not exist.
(Applause)
Yeah. There’s no way.
We get old.
Today, I do not want to die any more, as I wanted to when I was 15,
because I have great pleasure in being alive,
because only those who are alive grow old.
But we have some problems.
Aging brings us a reliance on crutches,
like these papers that I bring here.
So, getting older also has it.
I would like to talk to you
about a work presented by the Brazilian geriatrician Renato Maia.
He presided over the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology
and he wrote the book
“Decide how and how you want to live.”
In this book he speaks of the health capital that must be administered by us
lifelong to have a successful aging.
The first capital to which he refers,
that we have to learn to manage, is the biological capital.
Biological capital is the
which defines us genetically with birth.
Therefore, it is very important that we know the family history
of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents
and we know if they have had any disease:
hypertension, diabetes, dementia or cancers,
so that we can understand and modify it.
The second capital to which Dr. Renato refers
is the social capital.
The capital stock also accounts for 25% of this health capital
and is related to the place where we were born,
what public policies exist in these places,
if there is public welfare and if it will meet
to our needs when we grow old,
if this public health system can also support us in old age.
If we had been born, for example, in Africa,
we would not live for more than 50 years.
We were fortunate to be born in Brazil and in southern Brazil.
This gives us a very important differential.
The other capital he refers to is emotional capital.
And astonish you,
it accounts for 50% of this health capital,
that is, it is one of the most relevant.
This emotional capital arises in childhood,
when we learn how to manage our cognitive abilities
and emotional, if we learn to overcome challenges,
if we have a tendency to be depressive,
if we are afraid of overcoming obstacles.
So how do I get a management
successful or not of these three capitals?
If I do not do good management, I ignore my genetic history,
my history … is not it?
I am not socially active,
I do not change the changes of the country I’m living in
and I do not understand either,
I may be a depressed elderly person, with many illnesses,
I can have moments of long illnesses, I can die with much suffering
and before the expectation of life, that we saw back there
who are 74 years old.
If I make a good management of these capitals
I will certainly have more longevity,
diseases for a short time
and we will certainly live above 85 years of age.
However, managing such capital alone is not enough.
We have to change, each of us, the paradigm of what aging is
so that, when we are all very old,
let’s not be obsolete
and do not put us in a garbage can.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1970 the book
“Old Age – The Uncomfortable Reality”.
In this book she denounces the silencing
against the elderly.
Nobody talked about it. They were hidden.
If in 70, when Simone wrote the book, there was this silencing,
today we still live with prejudice with people who grow old.
So there is no alternative.
We have to accept this process of aging,
because it’s much better and we can do a lot more.
Brazilians, almost all, reject the aging process.
Data from the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery indicate
that more than 800 thousand people per year
perform aesthetic procedures for modifying one’s own body
in search of a …
youth eternal.
However, people, there is no way to stop this process
which is normal and that is …
nice and we have to accept it.
The data of the age pyramids of Brazil
show that we, in 40 years,
we will have the triple of the elderly that we have in 2010.
In 2010 we are 20 million elderly people.
In 2050 we will be 66 million.
This means that we will have much older than children
living in Brazil for 40 years.
We have the data, the information, the scholarships.
What are my advice? What did I come to tell you?
Practice physical exercises,
eat products without pesticides, stop eating fat,
take vitamin every day,
eat gelatin, use creams with collagen,
make love when love comes,
have sex when you can
However, there is no right recipe for each of us.
Jessie Gallan is a Scotswoman.
She lived above 100 years.
What was her income for longevity?
First, do not get married.
She said men are bad for their health.
(Laughter) (Applause)
She also said that …
She also said that one had to practice physical activity and eat that little bowl
Hot porridge every morning.
I bring the example of Professor Hermogenes,
a great name for Brazilian yoga.
The 40-year-old found that he was terminally ill
with tuberculosis.
He made a radical change in his life,
went on to practice yoga and do meditation every day,
transformed his diet into vegan,
he did not smoke, he did not drink and he doubled his possibility of life
and died after 90 years of age.
I also bring the example of Leandra Lumbreras.
She is a Mexican who lived above 127 years,
very dear and she said the following,
Her secret was to eat chocolate every day,
sleep a lot.
I do not know why sleep, but anyway.
And she did not get married, either.
When I heard about Leandra’s story, I said,
I do not eat chocolate because I do not like it,
I’ve been married three times, I’m on the verge of death.
(Laughs)
And now the last example is of a Blumenau,
she lived here in Blumenau, Mrs. Mística Pereira.
She lived for 114 years.
Unlike the others, she married and widowed twice,
was the mother of 12 children.
Seven of her children died earlier.
Think, she lived 114. They died very young, at 90.
And her longevity recipe, what menu was it?
Polenta, pirão and fried sausage, kids.
That’s what she ate for a living.
For the religious, life is eternal.
Buddha, however, warned:
all that begins, one day,
inevitably, ends.
Eternity exists in the present moment.
So, enjoy this time between your birth and your death.
Yeah.
You thought I was going to bring certainties, that I would bring elixirs,
that I would bring longevity, that I would bring everlasting life.
I do not bring anything.
I do not have certainties.
The only certainty I have
is that one day we all …
we will
die.
Namastê.
(Applause)
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