Thanks for bumping this thread @pauleckler. I think that I watched the programme clip before I realised my family history that predisposes to shortevity, so I’m probably not likely to be going strong in my 90.
I’ve done a fair bit of wondering about and consciously doing something about my healthspan and lifespan since subscribing to Peter Attia’s podcasts over the past 3 years. Things that, for the most part, are extensions of what I’ve done for the past 50+ years…sometimes inadvertently and, apart from diligent and effective brushing and flossing and a non-cariogenic diet, for the here and now effects rather than future health and well-being (far too vain to allow myself to get fat…or smell like an old ashtray …or to run slow). Thus far, I’ve enjoyed far better cardiovascular health to a greater age and without medical intervention than my mum did. I’m wondering how likely is that to be for folk moving forward.
One feature of the regions categorised as Blue Zones (the Loma Linda Adventists excepted) is that the centenarians or very old of the early aughts … when the moniker was coined … would all have been born around 1900 and in fairly isolated communities that relied very much on local subsistence farming or fishing. Quite literally, the first half of their lives, they lived a lifestyle that has pretty much disappeared even in those communities. I suspect that their offspring (at least from grandchildren onwards) won’t enjoy the vibrant good health as seniors of that generation did.