Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
life expectancy alone is not enough. There has to be a suppression of degenerative diseases that currently turn the older cohort into massive consumers of resources rather than producers. Diseases that kill quickly are economically sustainable. Keeping people alive who can’t produce is economically debilitating.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
There is chronic stress—the kind that comes from a bad job, sour relationship, prolonged financial hardship, or even what my friend fitness author and mega-athlete Mark Sisson calls “chronic cardio” (discussed momentarily). This kind of stress accelerates entropy and decay. It leads to prolonged elevation of the hormone cortisol, which can rob our
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What is novel about therapies that target aging is that they tend to produce improvements across the board. Normally, drugs tend to treat a single condition, leaving everything else untouched. But as aging is the breakdown of our body’s capability for self-maintenance in general, addressing that one root cause ameliorates all the conditions downstr... See more
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According to scientists who have studied the five Blue Zones, the keys to longevity are diet, exercise, finding a purpose in life (an ikigai), and forming strong social ties—that is, having a broad circle of friends and good family relations. Members of these communities manage their time well in order to reduce stress, consume little meat or proce
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