Find out how long you’ll live: the easiest home test

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You can find out if longevity is waiting for you with a simple home test, which was invented by Dr. Michael Mosley, journalist, television presenter and popularizer of science.

Mosley believes that a person’s condition reflects their physical abilities. But we are not talking about the fact that you have to get up 20 times or press the “hundred” of the chest. Michael’s first test is much easier – you don’t even need any sports accessories.

The ability to stand on one leg can tell a lot about a person’s health, Mosley said. “It’s a powerful predictor of how long you will live and how healthy you will be,” says the doctor and journalist.

He cites a study which found that 50-year-old men and women who could not stand on one leg with their eyes closed for more than two seconds were three times more likely to die at age 66 than those who could hold it. position for more than two seconds 10 seconds or more.

Are you under 50? According to Dr. Mosley, at 40, a good result, which speaks of a favorable outlook, is 13 seconds.

Professor Dawn Skelton of Glasgow Caledonian University, who commented on the test, said a person’s inability to balance is a sign of serious disturbances in the body – specifically, a symptom that the brain does not communicate with the rest of the body.

Ask a friend to help you with a stopwatch. Stand up straight, raise one leg and close your eyes. The countdown should stop as soon as you begin to lose your balance. The best result obtained in three attempts is taken into account.

Mosley recently developed another test based on another study. In the experiment, which he took as a basis, in 1999, 2760 people aged 50 and over participated.

The scientists gave them a simple task: take a chair with an armrest, sit on it, and then test how many times they could go from sitting to standing in one minute.

It turned out that men and women who managed to repeat the exercise in 60 seconds more than 36 times were twice as likely to stay alive after 13 years than those who could only stand up 23 times.