How long can people live. You can live as long as you can..

[legalboxers]

Its not in a bottle..or a place..

Im sure we all want to live long. Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren.

But how do we get there..

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/health/human-life-span.html - How Long Can People Live?

so how do we keep the sands of time

Humans aren’t built to last forever. The oldest person on record was Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman, who died in 1997 at the age of 122. In 2040, the average life span for people in Spain, projected to pass Japan as the country with the longest-lived citizens, will reach about 86 years.

So they say. But what are the underlying causes:

The most common risk factor for serious disease is old age. Heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurological conditions, diabetes — all increase radically with advancing years.

The article also states that cells dont reproduce:

chronic inflammation; cell dysfunction; changes in stem cells that make them fail to regenerate tissue; and cellular senescence, the accumulation in tissue of aging cells that accompanies disease.

Most Prevalent -

Heart Disease:

https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

Diabetes
Overweight and obesity
Poor diet
Physical inactivity
Excessive alcohol use

Cancer:

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes.html

Sad to say, they state drugs. But I think, a healthy diet and no stress should keep you healthy

[PunkinPie]

I saw a tv show about the Frenchwoman. She was all hunched over, was almost blind and deaf, and could only speak in a low whisper. Her great-grandaughter would speak the interviewer's questions in her ear and she would whisper back to the granddaughter, who would repeat what she said to the interviewer.

She said she felt "like God forgot her." She'd been a widow for more years than she'd been married.

My grandmother lived until almost her 104th birthday. She said she felt like God forgot her, also. Her skin was like very thin paper. The slightest scrape would tear it off into a big wound that had to be carefully watched for infection. Any cold could become pneumonia. She hated being bathed and dressed like a child.

Long life, even a healthy one, isn't to be too much desired. I think 90 is around where I'd choose to max out.

[OjosOscuros2]

How does one live stress free though? That's what I want to know.

[legalboxers]

wish I knew. life is stressful

[OjosOscuros2]

Well in the meantime, there's always the fountain of alcohol I guess.

[legalboxers]

lol preach.. or a lifetime gym membership

[OjosOscuros2]

Ooh dang, thanks for reminding me. Gotta take care of that right after Thanksgiving lol!

[PunkinPie]

My grandmother only worked a couple of years after nursing school before marrying my grandfather. She raised 3 kids, then he retired early (in his fifties). They spent the next several decades traveling the country in their RV. We joke that's why she lived so long!

[Davidkane]

Everybody is made different, there are people who live to over 100 years of age and they have been smoking all of their lives as well as drinking and some people die young from cancer without ever happen to smoke or drink

[madgoat]

My understanding is errors in cell replication, free radicals and other very basic realities limit age length of life forms before you start looking at illnesses and such.

[Valina]

Sorry to hijack... Or you can do this method of you had enough money.

What If You Replaced Your Organs With New Ones? - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com › watch

[legalboxers]

that too

[inmensus]

There are a lot of factor that influence how long you could life. There's a reason why people who live in big cities live shorter lives. They're exposed to all sorts of unhealthy things, from processed food to a higher amount of CO2. People who live in secluded rural areas live longer because they're not usually exposed to those things.

[Kemil_Zhoki]

My great-great grandfather lived to 102. His favorite saying was, "The whiter the bread, the sooner you're dead." It was his way fo saying, "Avoid processed foods." He didn't smoke, either, and for alcohol he only drank wine and brandy.

[Lance1965]

Some people can hang on while some people can't. My grandmother was told by several doctors she wouldn't live past 60 but she lived till 94 and she was a heavy smoker for just over 50 years.

[Secretgardenblood]

Good take.

[ChocolateCheesecake]

Interesting