New Life Expectancy Study: MEN

Did you read any studies on the life expectancy of males who make it to 72 and 11 months? It sure ain’t 74.

What's the safest age.. the age where your most likely to make it to your next year?

For an adult US male, somewhere in the late twenties early thirties.

Those are for people born now, means absolutely nothing for you. Just continue running.

Life expectancy at age 65 (LE@65) has been increasing about 1.5 years/decade since the 1980s. Articles have been written that "70 is the new 50" and similar themes. The reason is that medical advances are keeping seniors alive who would have died from the same illness a few decades ago.

The downside is that while many seniors are younger and more active than any previous generation, some will spend more years in declining health.

A decade ago, I helped one of the world's leading anti-aging scientists write a book on longevity, what causes aging, and what can we do about it in the future.

The problem is that aging is so multi-faceted that fixing one problem (heart damage, for example) only delays other inevitable problems... hardening of the arteries, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer, immune system declines, etc.

Medical science is getting much better at fixing aging organs, but the Holy Grail of antiaging medicine is reversing aging at the cellular level so these illnesses don't occur in the first place.

I believe that most high schoolers reading this will have a LE@65 of 100 or so, providing that they don't destroy their bodies from obesity and sedentary lifestyles. Even with the primitive anti-aging approaches we have access to today, most 50-year-olds today could reach my age 75 as healthy as me if they just made achieving optimal health a top priority in their lives. Most people do just the opposite... they ignore their health until something bad happens. That's like ignoring oil changes until your car's engine breaks and then trying to fix it.

Learn about statistics. Despite this average, if you're posting on letsrun at 72, you've probably got years left.

Just become a woman at 72. This isn't rocket science.

My wife's grandfather passed away during the weekend. He was 95. He drank heavily nearly every day, has been in a wheelchair for much of the last two decades. He has fluctuated between 270 and 320 lbs since he was in his 50s.

It takes a LOT to kill a person. The human body is super resilient, and if you want too bad enough, you can resist death for well past your 70s. The people dying before that are ones that are making the decision to leave their physical bodies early, which is a personal choice.

You can take ss at 62 (reduced amount).

Why not a man? I bet when you were young that wasn't even an option. Pitch or catch - it's up to you.

Every day your alive extends you life by about minute.

"Wasting" what time you have left? There are an infinite number of things you can try to do in life, what difference does it do to pursue just a few of them? Barely scratches the surface. Live for the moment and not for your obituary.

Lots of older guys walking around with pot bellies, unfortunately including my boyfriend. But he walks a lot, but his diet isn't the greatest. Once men get set in their ways it's so hard for them to change. Exercise, good diet, sleep at least 7 hours a day, stop smoking , stop excess alcohol, get yearly preventive medical check ups all that equals longevity,!

You should read up on what life expectancy actually is, how it's calculated, and what the implications are for you.

How is this calculated? Do they take the average death of every male this year? So child deaths all the way up to super old people dying? It is not common for young people to die, so obviously the expected age to die is pretty old. If it is calculated like that, then if you are alive and in good health right now, no need to expect you'll die at 73 because you've already gone past a large chunk of your young death chances, meaning you're now likely to live beyond the age of 73. For example the life expectancy of a healthy 50 year old man today is 81.

Side note, my grandpa just passed at the age of 86. He was generally unhealthy as long as I remember and still made it that long.

Actuarial tables (this one is from the Social Security Administration) look at the percentage of people at each age who die each year and use an algorythm to estimate the point at which exactly one half of the people that age will have died.

As you can see on this table, at age 20, column 4 shows remaining life expectancy of 54.97 years... or to age 74.97. As you survive each additional year, your LE continues to increase. By age 56, LE@65 for a male in the US is 16.94 years or to age 81.94.

Note: This table includes everyone... obese, sedentary, those with heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, etc.... if you've made healthy aging a top priority, your LE will be even higher.

how about this, i'm 63, watch loads of online porn and run. what's my life expectancy?

You apparently don't really have a life.