Improvement of the quality of life, promotion of healthy longevity, prevention and sustainability of our national health system which must cope with the increase in chronic diseases linked to the aging of the population. These are just some of the themes at the center of a round table that yesterday closed the first day of the V International Congress ‘Healthy Lifespan – Positive nutrition, antiinflammation diet, physical activity and sport‘ organized by the Paolo Sorbini Foundation, and promoted by Enervit and Technogym, at Palazzo Mezzanotte in Milan.
Among the guests, also the Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti according to which “the area in which the Paolo Sorbini Foundation operates, i.e. the improvement of the quality of life within the framework of increasing longevity, profoundly affects advanced economies such as the Italian ones”. With the growth in life expectancy “the sustainability of the healthcare system will be increasingly linked to the ability to act on the prevention dimension – said Giorgetti – Prevention understood not only as the timely identification of pathologies, but also as the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits This is because the data highlights that the causes of pathologies related to aging can be significantly traced back to risk factors that can be intervened on, such as unhealthy lifestyles.”
When it comes to longevity – it emerged from the round table – resolvins may have an important role, molecules that regulate the final phase of an acute inflammatory process, repairing damaged tissues and therefore restoring the state of good health of our organism. “We were the first to discover resolvins – explained Charles N. Serhan, director of the Center for experimental therapeutics and reperfusion injury at Mass General Brigham and professor at Harvard Medical School – and now there are 1831 studies on these molecules and still no we have finished understanding them. We are only at the beginning, they can do much more. They can have a role in tissue regeneration and the ability to promote the proliferation of stem cells.”
“In the history of medicine there are advances and achievements that cannot be forgotten. Aspirin, for example, remains a miracle drug decades after its development, but we must take into consideration the big picture and consider the importance of induction and promotion of resolvins because certain anti-inflammatories do not help us in this sense – added Barry Sears, president of the Inflammation research foundation and creator of the Zone diet – We must work on metabolism and on the basis of this identify the tools we have available in this battle”.
Among the topics touched on in the round table were also the correlations between longevity and various pathologies such as diabetes. “Diabetes and healthy longevity are closely connected issues – underlined Camillo Ricordi, professor of surgery and head of the Cell Transplant Division of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Fellow – Diabetes is a disease that accelerates the aging process and strategies that we can implement can help both prevent it and the pandemic has been a very strong accelerator for research into healthy longevity.”
Finally, the importance of physical exercise was underlined “which has a predominantly preventive role in chronic neurodegenerative diseases – concluded Alberto Albanese, president of the International Association of Parkinsonian Syndromes and Related Diseases – When the first symptoms appear we have therapeutic margins very reduced. This is why prevention is fundamental. It has been proven that continuous and regular aerobic physical activity prevents and reduces the future development of neurological diseases of various types”.
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