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To: Qone0 who wrote (10671)	12/7/2025 9:55:28 PM
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My great grandmother and my grandmother both lived to ~100 years. They were mobile and functioning until near the very end. Both grew up in with childhood malnutrition, no vaccination (there were none) and what would pass in today's standards as developing to lower end of developing standards. My grandfathers, one lived to over 90, the other to 80. The one who passed away "young", smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and died of brain stroke due to high blood pressure. Otherwise, he was up and running well. I remember him clearly. I think there are a few factors in play here. Firstly, lack of vaccines and general poor infant nutrition in their times meant that if you made it through your first 5 years, you likely had the genes that kept you going for many years. People with weak immune system or inability to endure hardship just didn't make it. Secondly, we can't test for it easily, but we know that the only sure way to extend life is via calorie restriction. I am pretty sure that everyone today eats a lot more than people ate 100 years ago. And it's not just the quantity of the food either. Their food was organic and free of pesticides and plastics. The average person today has a fair bit of microplatics in his/her bone marrow. Then there's the fact that people were just a lot more active in the past than they are now. They walked, rode horses, farmed by hand or built machines mostly by hand. They certainly did not take the elevator to their home or office and did not drive to the corner store. The combination of low calorie diet, no sugar, organic eating, and active lifestyle is known to slow cellular aging drastically. In general they died younger than us not due to aging, but due to infections, accidents, and toxins (lead poisoning, mercury, soot and carbon dioxide / monoxide). I suspect that if we combine the best features of the old and new lifestyles, the average life expectancy and the health expectancy will rise to ~90+ not 60ish.