“We can live to be 130 years old. I have such an intention… everyone has the power if they take good care of themselves. Then they will live to age like me.” Kazım Gürbüz says.
Gürbüz was born in the southern Turkish province of Adana in 1920. When he was 41, he broke his back and was left paralysed from the waist down, with doctors saying he would not walk again. However, he said he cured himself by allowing friends to crack his vertebra bones back into place: "I conducted 63 different experiments on myself… I was born again. Nine months [after the experiment] I began to walk. 'Miracle!' they said."
Yogi Kazım said his secret was to keep his body working and flexible, adding that his superfoods are honey, olives, red pepper and fresh fruits.
“Mohammad Ali had once saw me shaping my body and said I was even greater than him,” he claimed.
Refusing to describe himself as a miracle, he said that everyone could stay young. “Everyone has this power.”
The eccentric yogi’s philosophy of life eclectically includes routine greetings to the sun every time before he swims, as well as “finding all the answers in the Quran.”
At the age of 97, the yogi can still perform “the knot position” for, he claims, up to 48 hours.
"I am the same as when I was 25-30 years old. They challenged me to prove it in Europe, so I did," Gürbüz said.
They yoga guru said he performs sun salutations before swimming, finds answers in the Quran and eats a special diet. He makes honey of many varieties and normally finishes half a jar every day.
He also recommends pinto beans, peppers, pepper sauce, herbal tea and soup: "Less beneficial is meat, [which causes] most damage. There is protein in all [pulses], you do not necessarily need to eat meat."
Gürbüz also said people should live for others and themselves, and that life starts at 65: "We can live to be 130 years old. I have such an intention… everyone has the power. They are aware of the power that they use internal and power… [If] they take good care of their bodies. Then they will live to age like me."
