Can We Live to 200?

In the last century, the average human life expectancy doubled. Here’s a roadmap to the innovations that could help us do it again — maybe.

  Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger?

With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever.

  Peter Attia - MD

Peter Attia, MD, is the founder of Early Medical, a medical practice that applies the principles of Medicine 3.0 to patients with the goal of simultaneously lengthening their lifespan and increasing their healthspan. He is the host of The Drive, one of the most popular podcasts covering the topics of health and medicine. He is also the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.

  The real trick to staying young forever

While there is a popular narrative that older generations have robbed younger ones of future prosperity, Smith says the generations have more in common than not. Almost eight in 10 people between 18 and 24 and the over-65s want life to slow down, and social care for older people remains the second-highest concern for 18-to-34-year-olds. The issue is not whether they have anything in common, but how to connect them.

 Can Fasting Help You Lose Weight? (Or Maybe Live Longer?)

Here's the thing: eating is easy, and fasting is hard. If you're going to fast to lose weight, you probably will lose a bit, but the evidence is that most people gain the weight back fairly soon once the fasting diet is over. So fasting might provide a quick reward in terms of weight loss, but the loss will be fleeting. Suprisingly, though, fasting may be a good idea. A recent review by Stephen Anton and colleagues, in the journal Obesity, found that intermittent fasting may come with a variety of health benefits, including reducing inflammation, improving the ratio of lean tissue to fat, improving cognitive function, preventing type 2 diabetes, and possibly even prolonging life span.

 Could AI allow you to live forever?

When Roman Mazurenko was killed by a hit-and-run driver in late 2015, his friend Eugenia Kyda, then in her late 20s, found herself scrolling through their old text conversations. She was searching for vestiges of her friend in his digital footprint. Roman was always fascinated by the idea that our data would outlive our physical selves, so as an homage, Eugenia decided to use Roman’s online data—at least what she could access—to bring her friend back to life.

 Forget the Blood of Teens. This Pill Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pop

NIR BARZILAI HAS a plan. It’s a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades.

 How Long Can People Live?

The trick is not to increase life span, scientists say, but to lengthen “health span.”

 How Long Can We Live?

New research is intensifying the debate — with profound implications for the future of the planet.

 How Long Will We Live in 2069?

Naked mole rats, the Church of Perpetual Life, and the quest to discover what the future holds for the human lifespan.

 Seven Habits That Science Says Increase Longevity

As more people live well into their 90s and even surpass their 100th birthdays, scientists and researchers are studying just what they’re doing (and not doing) to live long lives.

 Sorry, Running Doesn't Make You Live Longer

You may have heard that a recent study found an hour of running could add seven hours to your life. Proclaiming as much in a headline is often traffic gold: People click and share content that says their habit is good for them; runners especially so, and who doesn't want to live longer? Problem is, the headline is at best misleadingly simplified; at worst, plain wrong.

 Study of 14,000 Nonagenarians Says Alcohol, Java Drinkers, Those Overweight In Their 70s Live Longer

“What allows people to live to age 90 and beyond?” Researchers at the University of California Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) have been asking nonagenarians that very question for the last 15 years. And the results may surprise you.

 Tips for a Long, Healthy Life From ‘Longevity Village’

Smile more, rethink stress and embrace aging: A doctor shares lessons from his travels to a Chinese village known for its centenarians.

 Tips for a Long, Healthy Life From ‘Longevity Village’

Smile more, rethink stress and embrace aging: A doctor shares lessons from his travels to a Chinese village known for its centenarians.

 Want To Live Longer? Take Up Tennis

Tennis might just be the best thing you can do to extend your life. A new study from Denmark, published just last week by Peter Schnohr and colleagues, shows that playing tennis may extend your life by nearly 10 years. That's a remarkably big benefit, one that even the study authors were surprised at. It's been well-established for a while now that exercise helps you live longer.

 Will Cutting Calories Make You Live Longer?

Calorie restriction is one of the least ridiculous strategies in the burgeoning field of longevity science. Studies going back to the mid-1930s have shown over and over that cutting calories by 25-50 percent lets yeast, worms, mice, rats, and monkeys live longer, healthier lives, free from age-related disease. But there’s far less consensus on the mechanisms through which it works.

 You Will Probably Live Longer Than You Thought, But Can You Afford To?

Societies around the world decided to let the oldest members take some final time off before their end. A good and humane practice, I think. However, it has limits.

How To Live Longer

We’ve long been drawn to immortality, or at least a version of it. In the 16th century, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León allegedly searched for the Fountain of Youth. Even further back, in Greek mythology, ambrosia granted eternal life. We’re still searching for ways to hit the biological pause button, but today’s scientists have a more practical approach: They hope to stall aging to prevent the diseases that so often come with it. If they succeed, we’ll not only live longer, we will also be healthier and more youthful. Here’s what we know now that Ponce de León didn’t.

A few simple habits can tack some extra years onto your lifespan

n a study in the journal Circulation, researchers studied five lifestyle factors that influence how long humans live. They researchers calculated that people who adhered to five things—drink no more than one glass of alcohol per day (two for men), maintain a healthy body weight, eat a high-quality diet, abstain from smoking, and exercise at a moderate-to-vigorous pace (think a brisk walk, at least) for 30 minutes or more a day—had a greater chance of living longer past age 50. Women who followed all five practices lived 14 years longer, on average, than peers who didn’t adhere to any of them. Men lived 12 years longer under the same conditions.

A History of The China Study

In the early 1980’s, nutritional biochemist T. Colin Campbell, PhD of Cornell University, in partnership with researchers at Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, embarked upon one of the most comprehensive nutritional studies ever undertaken known as the China Project. China at that time presented researchers with a unique opportunity. The Chinese population tended to live in the same area all their lives and to consume the same diets unique to each region. Their diets (low in fat and high in dietary fiber and plant material) also were in stark contrast to the rich diets of the Western countries. The truly plant-based nature of the rural Chinese diet gave researchers a chance to compare plant-based diets with animal-based diets.

Dog Owners Live Longer and Are Better People, Study Shows

Turns out companionship (and walking) is good for your heart.

How to Increase Your Chances of Having a Long, Healthy Life

Where’s the best place in America to live if you want to maximize your chances of living longer? Based on an authoritative new state-by-state study of the American burden of disease, disability and premature death, and how it has changed from 1990 to 2016, you might consider setting down roots in Hawaii, where residents have the longest life expectancy, 81.3 years. But if your goal is to live long and stay healthy as long as you can, call Minnesota your home, which outranks every state and the District of Columbia for average length of healthy life expectancy, 70.3 years.

How To Live Forever

Wexler explores the viewpoints of delightfully unusual characters alongside those of health, fitness and life-extension experts in this engaging new documentary, which challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Begun as a study in life-extension, How To Live Forever evolves into a thought-provoking examination of what truly gives life meaning.

Laugh Lots, Live Longer

A vast new study finds that a sense of humor lowers mortality rates, especially for women.

Places Where People Live the Longest

What’s the secret to a long life? For clues, check out these places worldwide where people live the longest. From Hong Kong to Loma Linda, CA, see how locals' lifestyles contribute to long lives.

Want to live longer, even if you're poor? Then move to a big city in California

Men in the top 1 percent of the income distribution live 15 years longer than men in the bottom 1 percent. A very poor American male has about the life expectancy of the average resident of Sudan or Pakistan. A low-income resident of San Francisco lives so much longer than his or her counterpart in Detroit that it's equivalent to San Francisco literally curing cancer. And these yawning disparities are getting worse, not better. Between 2001 and 2014, rich women gained 2.92 years of life while poor women only gained 0.04 years.

Where You Live Could Determine How Long You Live

Higher income has already been linked to greater longevity and better health. A new study by a prominent researcher of mobility suggests geographic location plays an outsized role in life expectancy for lower earners.

Why Women Live Longer Than Men

Women haven't always outlived men. A new study says the reason why may begin with childbirth.

Anti-Aging Products, Do They Work?

Throughout the ages, people have been searching for the mythical "Fountain of Youth," a magical place, potion, or pill to control, reverse, or even eliminate the aging process.

Betty White Tells the World to Get Over It!

Betty White has partnered with AARP to inspire those 50+ to abandon their pre-conceived ideas of what it means to get old. The campaign is called “Get Over It”.

I Wish I Was a Little Bit Shorter

The research is clear: Being tall is hazardous to your health.

One Of The World's Top Aging Researchers Has A Pill To Keep You Feeling Young

Elysium Health hasn't discovered the fountain of youth, but their new supplement—with the backing of some of the world's foremost authorities on aging—could change how you get older.

The Lovely Hill: Where People Live Longer and Happier

In one idyllic community in southern California, Adventists live 4 to 7 years longer -- and more healthily and happily -- than the rest of the country. A look at their diet, lifestyle, and philosophy

The Old-Age Survival Guide: How to Live a Longer, Happier Life

Good genes are a blessing that some should be grateful for, but they can help only so much. The rest, for better or worse, is all up to you.

The Right Road For A Better Future Of Aging

It’s become common knowledge that populations are rapidly aging across the world. Increasing longevity during the last century has contributed to unprecedented global economic growth—and new opportunities for personal fulfillment that previous generations could only dream of. A result of advances in medicine, sanitation, and safety, the longevity dividend may, in fact, be the most extraordinary accomplishment in human history.

The Truth About Human Aging

Antiaging products are big business--a multibillion-dollar industry. But the marketing of these products often misrepresents the science.

What Happens When We All Live to 100?

If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising and far-reaching ways.

Good Health Alone May Not Be The Key To Longevity

Reporting in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers write that exceptionally long-lived individuals appear no healthier than average Americans, with similar habits of smoking, drinking and overeating. Author Nir Barzilai discusses how lifestyle and genetics contribute to human longevity.

Life extension: the five most promising methods – so far

Most people want to live a long and happy life – or at least avoid a short and miserable one. If you’re in that majority, then you’re in luck. Over the last decade, a quiet research revolution has occurred in our understanding of the biology of ageing. The challenge is to turn this knowledge into advice and treatments we can benefit from. Here we bust the myth that lengthening healthy life expectancy is science fiction, and show that it is instead scientific fact.