Our longevity may actually turn out to have a hard limit.
The findings suggest that focusing on simply expanding our lifespan might be short-sighted, the researchers say.
Life expectancy at birth is a commonly used metric of an areas overall health.
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They were particularly focused on studying the trends between 1990 to 2019.
The teams findings werepublishedMonday inNature Aging.
It, in fact, slowed down considerably so in the United States.
For Olshansky, the takeaway message from this research is simple enough.
And these have been extraordinary events that have occurred in medicine and public health.
Were playing this game of Whack-a-Mole with aging-related diseases.
And he expects major discoveries and breakthroughs in the emerging field of geroscience to arrive in the near-future.
Theres a lot of money being invested in this right now.
Theres a lot of good science going on.
Theres also a lot of embellishments and exaggeration, which is something that we need to be cognizant of.
You dont need embellishment and exaggeration to justify this effort to slow aging.
The best justification is what happens if we dont succeed?
And if we dont succeed, were not going to like what we see.
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