I sometimes read about all these biohacking trends, filtered water, the microbiome and the ideal skin pH level, and then I remember the Iranian Ama Haji. The man from the village of Dejgah had not taken a shower for about 65 years. He simply decided in his youth that water and soap would bring him diseases. It sounds like pure madness, but there is one nuance: he lived to be 94 years old.
This old man didn't just avoid the bathroom. His daily routine would make any gastroenterologist resign of his own free will. Haji ate carrion from the roadside, and his main delicacy was rotten porcupine. He washed it all down with water from a rusty oil can. When he ran out of regular cigarettes (which he liked to smoke several at a time), he didn't suffer without nicotine. The old man would fill a metal pipe with dried animal shit and calmly smoke on.
He lived in a pit that looked like a dugout. In the winter, he moved to a brick shack built for him by concerned neighbors. They perceived him as an artistic homeless man and periodically threw him tobacco.
What about his health? This is the most interesting thing. A few years before his death, a group of doctors examined him. They clearly expected to find an incubator of deadly infections there, but they only found asymptomatic trichinosis. Haji's immune system turned out to be stronger than reinforced concrete. No serious pathologies. The body simply adapted.
Of course, the locals were constantly annoyed by this fragrant neighborly performance. In the summer of 2022, they finally pressured the grandfather and persuaded him to take a shower. After more than half a century of avoiding water, Haji was finally allowed to take a shower.
And on October 23, 2022, he was gone.
Mystics love to tell tales: they say that the grandfather washed off his “protective layer of dirt”, immediately began to suffocate, wheeze and magically lost his vitality. This is complete nonsense. The man turned 94. At that age, people die of natural causes, not from a bar of soap suddenly falling on them.
Death from old age a couple of months after the shower is simply an ironic coincidence that has been exaggerated into a tragedy. Iranian doctors at the time stated that the man died of natural causes related to old age.
He passed away quietly, leaving behind an interview with the Tehran Times that he gave back in 2014, and one undeniable fact. Sometimes you can eat garbage for 60 years, sleep in a hole, and have health that most visitors to expensive private clinics would envy.
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