[irrational]

Is it just genetic? On my father’s side, people typically live to 100 at a minimum and are perfectly healthy mentally and physically right up till a week or so before they die. My grandmother is 103 and can still lives alone in her house and can walk unassisted, has a memory sharp as anything, and so on. Maybe look at long lived families and figure out what is different about them?

[jvanderbot]

You're asking if anyone has bothered to study long lived people to determine why they live a long time?

[davnn]

Maybe living the blue zone [1] lifestyle?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone

[Root_Denied]

I'd be cautious of Blue Zones, they're potentially not actually a real thing and more of a statistical construct.

https://www.science.org/content/article/do-blue-zones-suppos...

[refactor_master]

The lifestyle with olive oil and fish, or pension fraud? [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/04/are-blu...

[whimsicalism]

a familial history of shoddy record keeping?

[ivape]

I think it's just plus or minus 10 years for whatever fate (genetics) had in store for you. That plus or minus being the little we can control (diet/activity).

[lenkite]

I think you can safely double that to plus or minus 20 years for what "little" we can control.

[rhyperior]

So much of the modern US diet that’s being exported to the world negatively impacts life and health span. It’s very much controllable, just harder than the default.

[ivape]

We're also exporting modern US attitudes and psychology (expectations, worldview), which is just an engine for stress. I think overeating is a stress response. Not everyone was a fiend for vanity at the scale we are today.

[markus_zhang]

Wow that’s such a blessing. You are going to have maybe 50% more quality time than many people.