longevity research is 30 years of total garbage.<p>healthspan research is clear.
1) inflammation is a natural process that results in wear on your body
2) lower inflammation
3) doing so is different for everyone. behavior is at the core of this process. including eating, sleeping, living a life of non-excessive stress, avoiding and treating major disease, maintaining healthy mouth, and moderate exercise.<p>so in a word---a lot , but not all , of chinese and eastern medical philosophy has been epidimilogically confirmed.<p>all the new crap about 'caffiene' 'metformin' and other bullshit being good for you is just that, garbage.<p>what isn't , is that sometimes some people do have deficiencies of insulin sentitvity, or vitamin D, or other things---like they used to have scurvy ( vitmain C defficiency) -----so these things have been figured out and in no way relate to logevity only healthspan.<p>the annoying stupid thing about longevity idiots is that if a set of practices and health observation and treatments coudl guarantee living a life of perfect healthy until 100 years old----(assuming any rich person coudl afford this) ---this would yield a total revolution in human affairs for the rest of civilizations existence.<p>longevity is the dream of fools
guaranteed healthspan is the dream of realists.<p>no one on hackernews is over 60 yet, and this is why all you idiots think with your brains, instead of your hearts. you dont' talk to 80 and 90 year olds, and if you do you dont' empathize with the path towards aging sickness and death. but you will if you don't die healthy and young, because that is what happens to you . guaranteed.<p>and you will only realize how stupid the idea of living forever is, when you eventually get sick and just want to live healthy one more year. you will realize that feels like forever when it's you. but it's only one more year.<p>virtually no one lives past 110. focussing on pushing that limit is stupid and longevity research has yielded very little interesting results applicable to other areas.<p>suspended animation and metabolism research , are , however , intereseting and they are fundamental biological areas of exploration and not 'goal oriented' towards the philsopher's bone. cause that's what it is. a skull bone.