New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

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?

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).

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

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

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.

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.

Maybe living the blue zone [1] lifestyle?

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

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

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

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

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...

a familial history of shoddy record keeping?