Which years of life are the best?

Trying to stop aging, scientists are also trying to determine which years are the best in people's lives, but for now, they are not succeeding.

Jay Olshansky, a professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is researching how to slow down the aging process by examining various factors, such as the genetics of long-lived people, writes in the online edition of the American "The Wall Street Journal Online".

"If there was a pill that could stop biological aging, at what point should it be taken?" is the key question for Olšanski.

Olšanski asked that question to his students, but also to his father. And while most students think that at 30 you are too old for the pill and that you should take it in your twenties, his father, who was 95 years old at the time, said that he was at his best when he was 50, when his children were already grown up, and he was in good health.

Olšanski (63) says that his life is good now, but that his best year was fifty, when nothing hurt him yet.

Researchers like Olšanski strive to understand the mystery of longevity and which institutions are considered the best and why. They measure the levels of fear and stress at different periods of life, as well as the level of satisfaction at certain ages.

Some of their findings are surprising.

So many people in their fifties don't want to be in their thirties, and seventy-year-olds are among those who are the most satisfied with their lives because they believe that their years have brought them experience.

What is not surprising is that, regardless of age, no one wants to look and feel old, which explains the good sales of anti-wrinkle creams and bags under the eyes.

Director of Stanford's Center for Longevity Laura Carstensen says that there are "too many variables" so for some the best years are those in which they have the most opportunities, so when they are young, others are more satisfied with life in adulthood, others point to the years when they were at the peak of their physical strength and had the most friends - in their twenties and thirties.

Because of all this, it is easier to determine which years are best for certain things, e.g. for marriage.

One study found that the best ages for marriage are 28 to 32, and if you want children, it's best to start before 32, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Research by the Spanish Research Platform SINC shows that the optimal age for running a marathon is 27 for men and 29 for women, for bodybuilding the best age is 25, and we process information the fastest at 18-19.

According to some earlier research, it is best to be 31 years old, while if the whole life could be spent in good health, it would be the age of XNUMX.

Gender is also important, so men state 47 and women 53 as the best year.

Joe Simperman, president of the nonprofit economic development group Global Cleveland, believes that the best years are "the time when you realize how short life is" and "how lucky you are" (to be alive).

University of Southern California psychology professor Arthur Stone says that research he has done with colleagues from other universities has shown that the seventies are good for life satisfaction, unlike the years between 20 and 50, when you worry about money, work, children.

These fears, as well as stress, begin to decrease around the age of fifty.

Stone says he often asked people in their late 50s and 60s if they wished they were in their thirties and, except for one person, none wanted to be young again.

"It fascinated me. People don't want that. There was too much confusion and going on at the time," Stone said.

The founder of a California consulting firm specializing in Age Wave aging, Ken Deichwald, says he would like to have a body like he did in his thirties, but not be 30 years old again. "I am much wiser at 60 than I was at 40," said Dychvald (63).

Older people also have more fun. People between the ages of 65 and 74, those with experience, say they have more fun than those in other age groups, according to a survey by Age Wave and Merrill Lynch.

That research, which included almost 4.000 people aged 25 and over, also showed that those between the ages of 35 and 54 have the least amount of fun, reports Nezavisne.