[editor-surveyor]

>> “Why, then, as we take more and more of these pharmaceuticals, are we living longer and longer and longer?” <<

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Myth!

We are not living longer as a group. We as a group still live the Biblical “three score and ten” plus presently two years.

Promoting the myth is just as evil as making the drugs.

Throughout the world, the longest living people are those that eschew all drugs and processed fake foods. They offset the rest that die in their 50s and 60s. When people from long living cultures come to the west, they quickly begin to die at earlier ages.

[Ditter]

I think the long lived people are the ones with the genes they inherited from their long lived ancestors.

[okie01]

We are not living longer as a group. We as a group still live the Biblical “three score and ten” plus presently two years.

Beg to differ. Current life expectancy in the U.S. (all races, both sexes) is 77.9 yrs. In fact, life expectancy has risen every year since 1900 -- when it was 49.24 yrs. See...

National Vital Statistics Reports

In Biblical days, the average life expectancy likely didn't go far beyond 30. You might hope to live "three score and ten" -- but the vast majority didn't come close.

Aside from eating our Wheaties and living a clean life, something has got to be causing this. Better diet, safer work conditions, better medical care...and pharmaceuticals belong in there somewhere.

For example, after suffering cancer in 1989, I'm alive today because of chemotherapy. That's 22 extra years...so far. And I'm not the only one.