How can I live to be 100?

[Cutlass]

Why would you want to? Life over 80 is really likely to suck. Badly.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Recent study says that you can live up to 10 years longer if you are eat less per meal. (Lesser quantities they mean)

Infact skipping dinner altogether and only eating breakfest and lunch helps alot.

Or so says my father who told me this over lunch and supposedly got this from watching CNN.

 

[Traitorfish]

In your case? Avoid making any political statements in the vicinity of ethnic neighbourhoods.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Less stress helps, but the best path is to have parents who live to be very old.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Get drunk with red wine daily.

 

[storealex]

Take drugs.

 

[El_Machinae]

Calorie restriction is unproven in humans.
Clean diet & exercise can give someone about 7 extra years.
Good genetics & luck are a big cause of the 20-year advantage some people have.

The best bet is to help cause the medical sciences to progress faster than you'll need their cures. Clean living can give you 7 years, medical science can push life expectancy an undetermined amount. BUT, like I say, you'll need the science to discover the cure before you need it. So, it needs to be moving fast now.

 

[emzie]

Calorie restriction is unproven in humans.

Given the mechanism by which calorie restriction prolongs life in test animals, I'd be pretty surprised if it didn't extend life in humans.

 

[El_Machinae]

I would be surprised, too.
However, I wouldn't expect the 30% difference we see in other animals. Lab animals tend to be obese, sedentary, and very stupid. The CR boost to such an animal will probably be better than what we'd see between people. Unless we compare to obese, sedentary people

 

[MobBoss]

I was gonna call this thread, does inbreeding make you live longer, but then I realzied that my own heritage is a cutlrual mosiac and that I will sadden myself when if someone tells me I ain't inbred enought o live long.
But why is it that people from destered islands like Iceland and hermit Islands of Japan, live to be 100?
Is it the water?
Tell us every trick you know to make us all live to be 100!

Eat right. Get some moderate exericse and dont engage in risky behaivor.

Why would you want to? Life over 80 is really likely to suck. Badly.

It can, but it greatly depends on the invididual. There are many examples of people over 80 having a great life.

 

[Traitorfish]

It can, but it greatly depends on the invididual. There are many examples of people over 80 having a great life.

 

[Disgustipated]

Given the mechanism by which calorie restriction prolongs life in test animals, I'd be pretty surprised if it didn't extend life in humans.

There is a scientist testing this on himself currently. We won't know the results until he dies. I believe he lives on like 600 or 800 calories a day.

 

[emzie]

I would be surprised, too.
However, I wouldn't expect the 30% difference we see in other animals. Lab animals tend to be obese, sedentary, and very stupid. The CR boost to such an animal will probably be better than what we'd see between people. Unless we compare to obese, sedentary people

Given the average person in North America, I wouldn't object to a control population of obese, sedentary people!

As I said, longevity at the cost of fertility should translate to any animal, but I would also expect modern medicine would be a much much more important factor in longevity. I think any test on humans would have to take into account we live pretty differently than our "wild ancestor."

There is a scientist testing this on himself currently. We won't know the results until he dies. I believe he lives on like 600 or 800 calories a day.

Well, strictly speaking, no, once test subject isn't a very good sampling. More to the point though, if he's eating 600-800 calories, that's significantly under the 25% cut that calorie restriction has had beneficial impacts in lab settings.

 

[kiwitt]

I heard exercise will kill you by wearing down your body faster.

“I believe you only have so many heartbeats in a life time and I’m not going to waste any of them jogging.”

That famous quote was made by Astronaut Neil Armstrong. It’s probably one of the stupidest phrases that you’ll ever hear as justification for not exercising.

Let’s test this statement and use some basic math to see if it makes any sense:

•The average non-runner’s base heart rate is about 80 bpm. That is a total of 115,200 heartbeats a day.
•The average runner’s heart rate is approximately 60 bpm. That totals 86,400 heartbeats per day.
•If you run for an average of forty minutes per day, raising your heart rate by 100 bpm, you will use an aerage of an extra 4,000 beats in each training session bringing your daily total to 90,400 beats.
•That’s 24,800 beats less per day that an average runner’s heart uses.
So, by running, you are saving an average of 24,800 heartbeats per day by being more fit.

If the limited number of heartbeats statement is true then, there are some interesting extrapolations that can be made. Let’s take this theory one step further:

•Let’s assume that life span of the average male is about 70 years.
•Also that the running lifestyle provides benefits from the age of 30 years.
So, given these parameters:

•The number of heartbeats for an average male for 40 years is 1,681,920,000 total heartbeats.
•The total for the runners heartbeats is 1,319,840,000 over 40 years.
•That is a difference of 362,080,000 heartbeats for the runner over 40 years.
That works out to a possible life span increase of 4,005 days or about eleven years. WOW!

So much for that stupid theory.

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[El_Machinae]

There is a scientist testing this on himself currently. We won't know the results until he dies. I believe he lives on like 600 or 800 calories a day.

The Calorie Restriction Society is pretty large, and so there're quite a few test subjects. As well, as the scientists start developing more and better biomarkers of aging, we can more easily test the effect CR has on people by monitoring biomarkers.

The search term "calorie restriction human" gets almost 1000 hits on pubmed (which is a database of scientific research focusing on biology).

Even with CR and exercise, though, I'd still want there to be top-notch medicine invented before I got to 100, if I wanted to live to 100.

 

[Disgustipated]

I used the wrong search terms perhaps. I was actually looking for it last night. I think I read about it first in a Discover magazine about 8 years ago.

 

[Quackers]

The japanese have scammed the welfare system.

all these centurions are long dead.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Avoid exercise, it's too stressful on the body.

 

[Xanikk999]

I hope there's a major breakthrough with life extension in my life time, I would like to at least live to see the 22nd century.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I hope there's a major breakthrough with life extension in my life time, I would like to at least live to see the 22nd century.

Me too.

Hopefully it is more of slowing down aging, as Otherwise, I don't think being 120+ old is that nice.