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Is it just genetic? On my father’s side, people typically live to 100 at a minimum and are perfectly healthy mentally and physically right up till a week or so
by irrational 1y ago
Is it just genetic? On my father’s side, people typically live to 100 at a minimum and are perfectly healthy mentally and physically right up till a week or so before they die. My grandmother is 103 and can still lives alone in her house and can walk unassisted, has a memory sharp as anything, and so on. Maybe look at long lived families and figure out what is different about them?
- markus_zhang 1y agoWow that’s such a blessing. You are going to have maybe 50% more quality time than many people.
- ivape 1y agoI think it's just plus or minus 10 years for whatever fate (genetics) had in store for you. That plus or minus being the little we can control (diet/activity).
- rhyperior 1y agoSo much of the modern US diet that’s being exported to the world negatively impacts life and health span. It’s very much controllable, just harder than the default.
- ivape 1y agoWe're also exporting modern US attitudes and psychology (expectations, worldview), which is just an engine for stress. I think overeating is a stress response. Not everyone was a fiend for vanity at the scale we are today.
- lenkite 1y agoI think you can safely double that to plus or minus 20 years for what "little" we can control.
- jvanderbot 1y agoYou're asking if anyone has bothered to study long lived people to determine why they live a long time?
- davnn 1y agoMaybe living the blue zone [1] lifestyle? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone
- throwaway1777 1y ago[dead]
- refactor_master 1y agoThe lifestyle with olive oil and fish, or pension fraud? [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/04/are-blue-zones-a-mirage/682250/ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/04/are-blu...
- Root_Denied 1y agoI'd be cautious of Blue Zones, they're potentially not actually a real thing and more of a statistical construct. https://www.science.org/content/article/do-blue-zones-supposed-havens-longevity-rest-shaky-science https://www.science.org/content/article/do-blue-zones-suppos...
- whimsicalism 1y agoa familial history of shoddy record keeping?