Control Your Quality of Life Into Old Age

Does living a long life run in your family? If so, count yourself lucky. Odds are that you, too, genetically gifted a long, healthy life. Scientists have identified genes that are associated with a longer life and may offer protection from common age-related diseases like cancer, dementia, and cardiovascular disease.  However, genetics only accounts for around 20 to 30 percent of your prospect of surviving to age 85. The rest is up to you. The lifestyle choices you make have an undisputed role in determining how long you will live as well as your quality of life and how well you age.

Very few people actually want to live forever. The anti-aging movement isn’t just about having a longer life, it’s about prolonging a healthy, higher quality of life. And, recent research has shown that Americans are not so good at harnessing a higher quality of life. In fact, a 23-year study published in The Lancet found that though people are living longer—on average 6 years longer—health and quality of life are on the decline.

It begs the question, what does it take to live better, longer?. . . . Read More