The secret to longevity and sustainable environmental development

• Published in: E3S Web of Conferences 2021-01, Vol.284, p.8024
• Main Authors: Chuluun, Batnairamdal, Vodenitcharova, Alexandrina, Kundurzhiev, Todor, Dimitrov, Todor Krasimirov, Trajkovska, Alexandra, Byambaa, Ariunsanaa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aging; Climate change; Diet; Medicine; Monks; Obsolescence; Seasonal variations; Sustainable development
• ISSN: 2267-1242; 2555-0403; 2267-1242
• DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202128408024

Studying dietary practice and lifestyle of Mongolian monks. The research is supported by Zuun Khuree Dashichoiling Monastery. We used historical classification, conclusion and review listing methods, analysis, integration, methods of evidential documents and linguistic study in order to conduct the research. Venerable monks were head educators in social life and example of healthy life by fasting and prohibiting meal after dusk. The five elements of human body and evolution three elements were continuously changed in order to adapt environmental and climate changes. Monks used to manage their diet by knowing accumulation, activation and pacification of elements and six seasons. They live long with clear minds free from senility, opaqueness, which directly related to their proper diet and intellectual exercises. Aging is not obsolescence but a normal phenomenon of healthy body. In theory of the traditional medicine, biological age of may be related to the percentage of wind, bile and phlegm. It is possible to prevent and heal diseases through proper use of diet by coordinating with body features, age requirements and seasonal differences. By combining theory of traditional medicine and right lifestyle, there are ways for creating new preventive treatment methods.