Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2016-2017) <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjoriikka_Ylisiurua>
Time: Friday November 4, 14h-16h Place: *room * *D.1.07*, building D, VUB ------------------------------ The Buffering-Challenging Strategy for Health, Fitness and Life-extension *Francis Heylighen <http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Heyl.html>* *Evolution, Cognition, and COmplexity (ECCO) group <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/>* Abstract: This talk will present a practical approach for optimizing physical and mental health that is founded on evolutionary and cybernetic principles. The human organism is a cybernetic system that has evolved to survive a wide range of physical and mental challenges, by learning to effectively control perturbations. According to Ashby's "Law of Requisite Variety", this control requires as an wide as possible range or variety of actions to counter the perturbations, the knowledge to select the right actions, and a buffering capacity to absorb random fluctuations. Maximizing such control maximizes the organism's health, fitness and life expectancy. Evolutionary cybernetics suggest a two-pronged strategy to achieve this: 1) buffering: maintaining plentiful reserves of protective resources; 2) challenging: confronting the organism with a wide variety of challenges, thus forcing it to develop its action capabilities and knowledge. Buffering requires sufficient rest, a healthy diet, and supplementary nutrients such as vitamins and antioxidants. Challenging requires subjecting the organism to stressful stimuli, such as heat, cold, exertion, fasting, sunlight, germs, hormetins, and intellectual problems. Challenges are ideally brief, intense, unexpected, and as diverse as possible. The presenter will summarize his personal program implementing this strategy, which includes sauna, yoga, paleo-style exercise and vibration training, as well as the results achieved. *References* Heylighen, F. (2014). Cybernetic Principles of Aging and Rejuvenation: the buffering-challenging strategy for life extension. Current aging science, 7(1), 60-75. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Ageing&Rejuvenation.pdf Heylighen, F. Evolutionary Well-Being: the paleolithic model. http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/127 Taleb, N. N. (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Random House. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *November 25th* Shima Beigi TBA *December 2nd* Helene Finidori TBA *December 9th* Sven Delariviere Demarcating mathematical understanding and the understanding subject See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> -- Cadell ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: https://cadelllast.com
