“The heart is not deceived. It remembers everything.”
There are stories that remain forever. In 1954, a young doctor found himself in Tula province: snow, a village, a little girl with pneumonia. There was no medicine, the mother was dead, the father was desperate. Chazov cured the girl. The father offered her money, then a chicken. The young doctor ran after her into the yard, crying and laughing at the same time: “Leave this chicken alone. You’ve already given me everything.”
Nearly half a century later, he couldn’t remember that scene without crying. Then he finally gave up the path of marketing. His mother once said:
“Don’t take money from the sick. It’s a sin.”
And he remembered it. And he kept this principle all his life.
“To live long, you don’t need oatmeal, you need a goal.”
“I can’t imagine a morning without tea with sugar, white bread and doctor’s sausage,” he said.
And it wasn’t a pose, but honesty. He didn’t follow fashion trends, but understood that health is not a diet, but an attitude towards yourself. Eat whatever you want, but without fanaticism. The main thing is not to overeat and listen to yourself.
Chazov warned: The greatest threat to the heart is stress. We don’t die because of circumstances, but because of our attitude toward them. He once resuscitated a man at an international conference: a journalist approached the microphone, and his heart stopped from excitement.
Our bodies can’t keep up with the pace of life. On the outside, we look alive, but inside, we’re exhausted.
He often repeated: the ability to forgive and maintain inner peace is the key to a long life.
“The most destructive thing in a home is neither alcohol nor sugar. It’s television.
Strange as it may seem, Chazov kept repeating:
“Take away the television. You’ll live longer.”
Not because it emits radiation, but because it provokes anxiety. Bad news seeps in like poison. Day after day. Nearly half of all people live in a state of constant or periodic depression. And depression doubles the death rate from heart attacks.
