Seven gold councils from the ingenious doctor Nikolay Amosov

We offer you several councils how to coexist with medicine longer to live and to suffer misfortunes from diseases less.

1. Do not hope that doctors will make you healthy.
They can save life, even to cure a disease, but will only bring to start, and further — to live reliably — rely on yourself. I do not diminish in any way power of medicine as I serve it all life. But also I am a good judge of health — theoretically and practically. About it I will brag: one and a half years I make an experiment on myself — three hours of physical culture with dumbbells and run.

2. Doctors treat diseases, and health needs to be got a training.
Because health is "reserve capacities" of bodies, all our physiology. They are necessary to support normal functional indicators — at rest and at loadings — physical and mental and also not to ache, and having got sick, whenever possible — not to die. For example, that the blood pressure and pulse did not increase more than by one and a half times at exercises or run, and inevitable short wind quickly calmed down. Not to be afraid of a draft, and colds quickly passed without drugs, by itself. And in general, that it was well worked, fallen down, eaten and drunk".

And so: these "capacities" drugs are not extracted, only by a training, exercises, loadings. And — work, patience by cold, a heat, hunger, exhaustion.

3. What is diseases, feels everyone: the annoying disorder of various functions preventing to feel happiness and even to live. The reasons are known too: external "harm" (infection, ecology, public shocks), own unreasonable behavior. Sometimes — congenital defects.

I claim: the human nature is strong. At least, at most of people. However, small diseases are inevitable, but serious most often — from unreasonableness of a way of life: decrease in reserves as a result of a detrenirovannost. External conditions, poverty, stresses — on the second place.

4. The training of reserves has to be reasonable.
It means gradual, but persistent. For example, in exercises, run or even walking it is daily possible to add from 3 to 5% of the reached level, in sense of number of movements, speed and distances, and depending on age and reliability of initial health. Same concerns hardening, fire, even works.


If to tell about a training essence — that is the mode of restrictions and loadings (RON as now like to reduce). It is my fad. However, I thought up nothing original. Three main points.

The first — food with a minimum of fats, 300 grams of vegetables and fruit daily and that weight equaled to figure: growth minus 100.
The second — physical culture. Here business is more complex. It is necessary to all, and children and old men — especially. As now at work almost nobody physically strains, in principle, for decent health everyone would need to be engaged on an hour a day. But is not present for this character at the normal person. Therefore — at least 20 — 30 minutes of gymnastics, are about 1000 movements, it is better with dumbbells on 2 — 5 kg. I advise to practise in front of the TV when "News" show that time to save. As addition to physical culture it is desirable to allocate the site for walking, on the way for work and back, on one kilometer. It is useful, and keeps nerves, considering bad transport. I do not speak about jogging any more — not really. But — it is useful.
The third point, perhaps, the most difficult: management of mentality. "You learn to dominate yourself". But oh as it is difficult! There is a lot of recipes, up to meditation, I will not describe. Itself I use simple method: when big heat a lot of adrenaline was also emitted, I fix attention on rhythmical rare breath and I try to relax muscles. Most good at such moments — to make vigorous gymnastics, but the situation usually does not allow. But all the same, as soon as will allow — work. The excess of adrenaline is burned at physical culture, and in such way vessels and bodies escape from spasms. At animals stresses are resolved by flight or a fight, and it is not allowed to the person.

5. If you are young up to 60! - and there are no symptoms from bodies, it is not necessary to run at the slightest indisposition in policlinic. As already spoke, our doctors do not trust the nature, are aimed at drugs and rest. Be afraid to be taken prisoner to them! Will find diseases and will convince: "To have a rest and be treated!"

In an organism there are powerful protective forces — the immune system, compensation mechanisms. They will work, it is necessary to give a little time. Keep in mind that the majority of slight diseases pass, doctor's medicines only accompany natural recovery. Say to you: "Cured!", and you also believe: "Good doctor!"

If has the luck to get to the good doctor, protect him, in vain do not disturb. Remember that the doctor is more, than just the expert. This is not the plumber. Follow instructions of the doctor... moderately your understanding. Also do not demand from it excess drugs about which from neighbors learned.

I will repeat: drugs it is necessary to drink less. For example, droppers, already not only in hospital, but also at home became fashionable now. And so: nonsenses it, fashion. One business — in resuscitation "the heavy artillery", another — houses is necessary. Different indications.

What to tell in conclusion of item 5? To be healthy, the strength of mind is necessary.

How to the person of no character to find a behavior optimum in a triangle between diseases, doctors and exercises? My council: to choose the last — exercises and restrictions. At least, to try. Believe — will pay off! However — each master of his own live. And health.

6. Interesting question. Why people so often are ill?

I think that 90% of people if they observed the correct way of life, would be healthy. But, unfortunately, the mode demands will tension. And the person has not enough will power... Modern official treatment is performed by method of "Selection Search" (!) of hypotensive means which not one ten and which then it is necessary to accept all (!)

7. There is more. In the world there is a lot of, it is a lot of bad doctors. I cannot say without grounds: "all doctors bad". It is a lot of good, but also bad — too. Proofs? Ask what they read and that are able. Read — from practicians — unit. Are able — more or less — doctors of a surgical profile. Because they without needlework just cannot heal. Therapists sincerely consider that they need to be able to do nothing — the analysis to make, on X-ray to look, to punkutirovat a pleura. There are supposedly for this purpose narrow experts. And we are supposedly the general doctors. So that's that.

And in the end. There are many delusions in medical science. Often it depends on the wrong assessment of statistical data. For example, in your opinion, in what the reason of "growth", "increase" in cancer?

- In the world there is no special increase in number of cancer patients (except lung cancer). Moreover, cases of stomach cancer even decreased. As cancer took the second or third place in mortality reasons - and borrows. But very few people consider that life expectancy over the past half-century increased, and people of advanced age have most often cancer.

It is only the shred of thoughts, the conclusions, Amosov's councils. We decided to be limited to them. Readers can get acquainted on the Internet with the rich heritage of the surgeon, writer, journalist Nikolay Amosov...

Telling about medicine, about life and death, at last, about itself, Amosov is frank to ruthlessness, he carries on a conversation with own conscience. And it learns to think more precisely and more deeply, sets thinking of how to live.