Headline, August 02 2024/ MANKIND : ''' LIFE'S LONGEVITY LIFTS '''

MANKIND :

''' LIFE'S LONGEVITY LIFTS '''

LONGEVITY AND THE KEY TO LONGEVITY IS JUST PLAIN BORING. Health anxiety has risen greatly over the last few decades. The deluge of online content about chasing perfect biomarkers and immortality plays a role in that.

The other day someone at my gym approached me and lamented that he could spend nearly every waking hour of his life executing the countless viral health and longevity recommendations popularised by internet influencers and podcast hosts, and still feel that he is falling behind.

He was alluding to a complicated and often contradictory menu of ''bio-hacks'' [ shortcuts for improving our biology, all of which lack scientific rigor ] and '' protocols '' [ highly specific regimens for exercise, sleep and nutrition].

In this era's search for eternal youth, there are supplements, green powders, cold plunges, the supposed benefits of low-angle morning sunlight, continuous glucose monitors for non-diabetics, box breathing, the proposed benefits of rapamycin :

[ A drug originally used in organ transplants being adapted for longevity], and countless restrictive diets that range from avoiding seed oils to becoming aware of the ''hidden dangers'' in fruits and vegetables to shunning nearly everything but meat.

While obsessions with health and longevity have long dogged humanity, this latest version is intensified by an ecosystem in which influencers and podcasters profit from our attention and quest for health by getting sponsorships from supplement companies, sleep trackers and other pseudoscientific wellness products.

In 2016, the global supplement markets amounted to $135 billion. Today it's ballooned to $250 billion. That figure is projected to hit nearly $310 billion within the next four years.

Some of these interventions have limited uses, while others range from the absurd to the truly harmful. It's a shame that people are spending their money and energy on such things - even more so because the key to a longer, healthier life is no mystery.

Research has long shown that health and longevity comes down to five fundamental lifestyle behaviours : exercising regularly, eating a nutritious diet, eschewing cigarettes, limiting alcohol consumption and nurturing meaningful relationships.

This stuff is simple, somewhat boring and harder to make money off of then trendy supplements, complex sounding theories and new gadgets - but it's what actually works.

For a landmark study published in the journal Health Affairs, researchers analyzed data dating back to the 1990s of more than 14,000 Americans men and women starting at the age of 50.

They found that 50-year-old nonsmokers who drank alcohol in moderation and who were not obese could expect to live, on a average, seven years longer than their peers who did not share these traits.

The average life expectancy for women living this trio of lifestyle behaviours was just shy of 89 years.

For men, it was nearly 86 years. By tracking disabilities associated with aging, such as trouble walking, bathing and getting out of bed, researchers found that of those seven additional years, six were typically disability-free.

The role of relationship in longevity was examined in a 2023 meta-analysis published in the journal Nature Human Behavior that included more than two million adults.

Researchers found that at any given age, there is a 14-percent higher risk of dying early associated with loneliness and a 32 percent higher risk of dying early associated with social isolation.

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on Life, Health and Longevity continues. The World Students Society thanks Brad Stulberg.

Professor Brad Stulberg is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Public Health, the author of '' The Practice of Groundedness '' and '' Master of Change, '' and co-founder of the News-letter '' The Growth Equation.''

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