Reddit » Longevity
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A good lifestyle helps increase the percentage of the healthy part of a life span, as well as reduces risk of early death or chronic sickness or disability, but does not help at all in increasing the average lifespan.
Reddit » Longevity
7h ago
Perspective on the aging field:
Much focus on late life, death, lifespan/longevity in the aging field. Much discussion of how long people want to, or should, live & whether death is good or bad. Maybe too much. My focus is on the early part of adult life, not the end. On re-achieving early-adult (prime-of-life) biology, repeatedly. I'd love to see more focus/discussion of this early end of adult life as the goal, not just death avoidance. Longevity is just a side effect of re-achieving optimal adult health.
Oversimplifying, adult life has 3 stages (w/ fuzzy boundaries):
1. early adulthood ..read more