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A Roadmap to a Longer Life: Discovering the 8 Key Factors of Longevity

               Be able to do what you want, when you want!

I believe most of us want to live a long, healthy life. My father would opine that one of his significant fears was death. I would tell him that one worst-case scenario would be to have someone change his diaper for the last five or ten years of his life. I want to live a healthy life, capable of doing everything I am doing in my life today.

Longevity Habits

https://www.lifeextension.com/news/aging/habits-for-longevity. Healthy eating, moderate drinking, exercise, stress management, and other lifestyle factors have been the mantra for living a long and healthy life. A recent study found that other issues are critical to a long life but are aimed more specifically at the risk of death in the near time.

Social Frailty Index

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209414120. Researchers discovered several factors that have relatively nothing to do with physical or medical health. Healthy relationships are critical to healthy living, especially for older adults. It turns out that the Social Frailty Index uses social attributes to predict mortality. The study noted above involved over 8,000 retirees over 65 and considered over 180 predictors of death, especially death within four years.

Depressive Disorders

https://www.lifeextension.com/protocols/emotional-health/depression. Mental and emotional health affects our physical health and longevity. Depression is a term used to encompass mental health issues in various ranges of severity. Around twenty percent of Americans have experienced at least one episode of depression during their lives. Life events, death, divorce, loss of job, and more contribute to the most frequent instances of depression. When depression interferes with our normal lives, it may reach a level to be classified as depressive disorder.

Risk factors associated with depressive disorder are gender, age, family history, maltreatment (neglect/abuse) early in life, traumatic life events, chronic stress, loneliness, sleep disorders, and more. Many times, depression develops from disease (heart, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and more).

Key Factors Affecting Longevity

https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/. The study in this reference is extensive and can be requested from the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study. Social factors are aligned with mortality but are not typically used to predict death. This University of Michigan study found eight unique lifestyle factors to predict death within four years accurately. Over twenty percent of those surveyed in the study died within four years of the study.

The eight predictors of early death are:

Environment, perceptions, relationships, self-worth, and more contribute as much to death as medical conditions. As we age, feeling comfortable in our environment and being connected to close relationships are critical to mental and emotional health.

Relationships

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10680-018-9469-1. Being a biological and adoptive parent helps tip the longevity balance in your favor. Frequency and quality of family visits are critical, especially when a strong, healthy relationship exists between kids, parents, and grandparents. Love fosters emotional health and is important when we are retired. One side effect of social interactions with friends and family is extending your longevity. It gives many a feeling of being younger and more connected.

What if you do not have children or have adopted children? It means you must work a bit harder – not much, but a bit more. https://www.lifeextension.com/news/aging/social-interaction-longevity is a good source of information on that topic.

Conclusion

We can control many aspects of our lifestyle. Some we cannot. Concentrate on those things within your grasp and sphere of influence. The more we dwell on those things outside our control, the more stress builds, affecting our health, especially the enjoyment of our retirement years.

Live Long & Enjoy Life! – Red O’Laughlin – RedOLaughlin.com

 

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Red O'Laughlin

F. M. ‘Red’ O’Laughlin, III, is a researcher, author, and public speaker. He speaks on health and wellness, aging, personal growth, and motivation. Red states often that, “If you treat symptoms, you will always treat symptoms. You must treat the cause of a problem to correct it.” I research what happens at the cellular level in the human body, biochemically speaking. I look for cause and effect relationships. I identify the causes of health problems. I write and speak about those causes and the potential options for correcting those problems.

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