How long do we live? Expectancy is to 80.4 (US data 2004), and some are now saying 80.8 as of 2013. Was 48.3 in 1900. So the group of us is getting older. Now the longevity experts would tell us that the oldest among us hasn't really gotten older. The top dog in longevity: Maybe 1113, or 122, the data keeping back then, and from where, not so good. And who should we ask if we want to live really long, your doctor, right? Maybe not. I looked in UpToDate, the hot shot "medical encyclopedia"...and it is good for lots of stuff, longevity...no such place or topic to look up. I can check on how to make someone with a particular cancer survive longer, or with hypertension, you get the idea. Eventually, apparently living longer is treating what you have better. With rats we can do experiments and see which rat lives the longest, apparently that just has not been ok with human research, so extrapolation. First we do have to kick what kills us off early. Living longer world...
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