ShortHand: How Can You Live to 100?
6/23/202622 min
Reliably living to 100 years old – a once unthinkable goal – is slowly creeping closer to becoming a reality. But there’s a catch: we’re still not entirely sure how it works…
On the one hand, a healthy, stress-free, and activity-rich lifestyle (with a bit of actually-rich thrown in for good measure) does seem to have a legitimate effect on your mortality. However, some people seem to be able to rip ciggies, drink wine, and still live to a ripe old age. So what gives?
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First 90 secondsHannah Maguire· Host0:00
[upbeat music] In all the complexities of the universe, there is one thing we know for certain about life, and that's that it ends. That's right, we are all going to die one day, and we might not know how, we might not know when, but like it or not, the big fellow with the black hood will eventually come a-knocking for us all. But is there a way to delay the inevitable swing of his scythe? Well, some people reckon that they might have found the cheat codes to longevity, and they might not be quite what you'd expect. Wanna learn the secrets to sticking around for a good time and a long time? This is The Shorthand. Much of modern research into life expectancy traces back to one guy, 19th century English mathematician Benjamin Gompertz. In 1825, he created the Gompertz Law that provides mathematical proof for what we might call stating the obvious: human mortality rates increase exponentially with age. The Gompertz model says that for adults between 30 and 90, your risk of dying roughly doubles every seven to eight years. But surely things have changed since then, right?