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The Generics of Living Longer.
Genetics is far more powerful and a bigger determinant than people have been told.
There is, however, evidence, and it makes perfect sense, that healthy people live longer than the general population.
Having a longer healthspan - staying healthier for longer - predicts longer lifespan as well in supercentenarians (PMID: 22219514).
Centenarians are already extreme outliers compared to the general population (you need to have at least some favorable genes to live so long)
And the healthier centenarians live longer than the unhealthier centenarians.
Your lifestyle can make you live longer if it reduces your risk of the major causes of death.
- Heart disease
- Cancer
- Alzheimer's and other dementias
- Kidney disease
- Diabetes
You can reduce your risk of these diseases with lifestyle:
- not being overweight and obese
- exercising regularly
- eating a minimally processed diet
- avoiding smoking and excessive alcohol intake
- keeping vital biomarkers normal (blood pressure, HbA1c, ApoB, eGFR, hsCRP, etc.)
