What Is Successful Aging?

Friday, February 13, 2015 - 13:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Despite the claims of people selling books on ascension into being robots or diet fads, you are not going to live forever. It used to be life was truly short and now we are in a period where life is much longer but after the age of 65 it is not better, it is instead a slow steady decline toward death.The goal cannot be to try and live forever, nature has built in too many biological landmines to control that, but to live healthier until we do die. First, we'd have to agree on what this 'successful' aging would look like, without wellness psychobabble. read more

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