[nickcarraway]

Ping

[Uncle Miltie]

I take a wide variety of anti-oxidants. I get sick once for every four times my wife does.

[ClearCase_guy]

Dead people in the Blue Zones vote Democrat.

[faithhopecharity]

I hear the Democrats have King Tut voting for them

[cgbg]

Yup—collecting benefits for dead people who have no death certificate can be a lucrative scam.

It works for rent control as well. Sneak dead grandma out of town with no death certificate and you can live in her rent-controlled apartment for decades.

Lol.

[faithhopecharity]

however, there are some very well documented factors that can and do extend lifespans.

see:
https://adventisthealthstudy.org/studies/AHS-1/findings-longevity
and
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/648593#google_vignette

note that it is NOT necessary at all to agree with or to join the SDA church to simply read and maybe decide to adopt their health plan. so please please no religious flames, ok?

thanks

[Pres Raygun]

There has been some research that epigenetics, which are regulatory DNA that regulates gene expression in response to environmental factors, can lead to long life times. Near starvation in one generation can for instance lead to epigenetic changes that result in long lifetimes for the next generation. My mother and several of her sisters of Norwegian descent have lived to their late nighties with one sister dying at 103 and two of the younger sisters still living at 94 and 98. It is a bit of a curse though, since they all end their lives with some degree of dementia.

[dangus]

I wonder how this affects longevity statistics.

[spintreebob]

Blue Zone must be true. Medicare and Medicaid are paying big bucks for seniors who have lived well beyond the notice published by the Funeral Home.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I think I told people this a couple of decades ago. That a lot of the “really old people” data was from fraud.