East and West: productive longevity technologies

The article provides a comparative analysis of various methods of extending and improving the quality of life, maintaining professional activity and increasing efficiency. The authors combined the methods ac-cording to the values they present into several groups, namely: social, physiological and spiritual. The comparison is carried out on the basis of the division into Eastern and Western approaches to the functioning of the human body. The Western worldview is represented by the concepts of posthuman and biohacking, and the effectiveness of Eastern wellness practices in increasing the resource of the human body is shown by the example of qigong breathing practices. It was concluded that it is necessary to combine the achievements of medicine, psychology and means of physical culture based on the foundation of the intercultural synthesis of Western and Eastern achievements in these areas.