With IF discoveries & studies, and new developing technology, longevity projections could well be beyond the 120 year lifespan.

This will raise our awareness of possibilities.

Most people may have an 80 year lifespan mindset, and, from my understanding, may not be thinking and viewing from the 120+ years perspective.

This article mentions research done over 50 years ago on IF and longevity:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Does-the-5-2-intermittent-fasting-diet-work.aspx

Our habits are being developed even as we experiment with IF on ourselves.

So what would longevity look like?

What do we do with our newfound time?

I learned that I should continue 5:2 fasting, strengthening, cardio, adequate sleep, maintain relationships & keep up with other languages.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/08/how-to-live-longer-experts-guide-ageing

Now I know what to do with my extra time.

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“Tobias Karlsson – but to me it is more about adding life to the years than adding years to life!”

@tobias, great thought!

If we could add more life to our years, then we would want as many more years as we could?

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I read of the struggles that many are facing with being hungry, losing weight or even obstacles that we continue to face in our lives.

I also have those struggles and more. Life & living struggles.

What if we could embrace those challenges?

What if those challenges really are the beginnings to defining the persons that we are becoming?

What if at some point, we look forward to those challenges with a sense of calm & peace?

Those that have reached a higher level of contentment with their fasting and are in some maintenance mode seem to have that sense of calm & peace.

I believe that we can have that flow state at any stage, even at the beginning of the fasting adventure.

It’s all in the preparation steps and mindset.

So what would that be or look like?

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Interesting thoughts on longevity & strength training.

Brad Pilon reviews Michael M’s original documentary on Intermittent Fasting:

http://bradpilon.com/weight-loss/the-52-diet-my-review/

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Going on a health kick reverses ageing at the cellular level, researchers say, by lengthening telomeres.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24111357

This confirms what we know about health, fasting & longevity.

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Calico Is Google’s New Company Dedicated To Health And Well-Being

http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/calico-is-googles-new-company-dedicated-to-health-and-well-being/

This is an interesting initiative by a company that can afford to do the research.

We will all benefit by this when we actually take the recommendations.

It may all be obvious to us when they provide their conclusions, except for any advanced technologies that continues to evolve.

Hoping we hear soon…

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Lions football player Nate Burleson suffers broken arm in crash because of pizza.

http://usat.ly/1alaRby

This is another way to shorten life faster accidentally.

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The Affordable Care Act is going into effect on October 1st, 2013

http://www.hhs.gov/opa/affordable-care-act/index.html

Insurance and health care and well being are tied together. There are lessons to be learned from other countries, like the U.K.

Fasting and wellness goes a long way to postponing any medical intervention.

How will this affect you if you’re in the U.S.?

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I took a longevity test on this site:

https://www.livingto100.com

After answering the questions, I received this result:

Your calculated life expectancy is 105 years.

Then I was asked:

What would you like to work on to add years to your life?

✔️Weight
✔️Education
✔️Exercise
✔️How can I tell if I have saved enough to retire?
✔️Lowering Cholesterol
✔️Lowering Blood Pressure

I received this individual summary:

⚫️Lifestyle

+ 0.25
Moving to a place where the air quality is better could add a quarter of a year to your life
+ 1.0
If it is ok with your doctor, taking an 81 mg aspirin every day improves your heart and brain health and could help you delay or escape a heart attack or stroke. Taking an aspirin each day, perferably in the evening, could add 1 year to your life expectancy.
+ 0.5
Ultraviolet rays present in sunlight and tanning beds greatly increase your risk of skin cancer, including melanoma. They also increase wrinkles. Minimizing your sun exposure could add half a year to your life expectancy

⚫️Nutrition

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It is unclear if your current weight puts you at increased risk for heart disease or cancer. None the less, by no longer being overweight you would likely improve your overall health and could increase your life expecatancy by half a year or more.
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The more you can get fast foods out of your diet the better. While you are already doing a pretty good job of doing so, completely removing fast foods from your diet could add a quarter of a year to your life expectancy
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Osteoporosis (brittle bones) is a terrible disease that becomes more common with older age. Among the important ways to prevent osteoporosis, it is important to have adequate amounts of calcium in your diet. Add more dairy products to your diet or take 1500 mg of calcium a day. Doing so could add a half a year to your life expectancy.
+ 1.0
Iron is likely an age-accelerator and increases risk for age-related diseases. Stopping your iron supplement could add a year to your life expectancy
+ 0.5
Being more active in your leisure time, other than exercising, could add half a year to your life expectancy

⚫️Medical

+ 0.5
Decreasing your systolic blood pressure (the first of the two numbers) to 120 or even lower could add half a year to your life expectancy
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Decreasing your diastolic blood pressure (the second of the two numbers) to less than 80 or even lower could add half a year to your life expectancy

Longevity Calculator Personal recommendations

⚫️ How Do You Cope With Stress?

Excellent! Managing your stress in such a way that it doesn’t eat away at you, and in your case actually acts as a motivator is tremendous. Your ability to manage stress effectively will substantially improve your life expectancy and increase the number of healthy years ahead of you.

⚫️ Stress factors:

It is wonderful that you have not noted significant stressors in your life. Alternatively, perhaps there are what would normally be regarded as stressors in your life, but you find they don”t adversely affect you. Nonetheless, consider the below strategies for reducing the effect of stress. Adopting one or more of these that fit well for you might even add years to your life.

⚫️ Sleep Habits

It is terrific that you are getting adequate and quality sleep. Adequate sleep is also a sign of good health.

⚫️ Education

Those added years of education will likely increase your life expectancy for obvious reasons such as your being a more informed consumer of health care and your being more likely to partake in healthy behaviors such as not smoking and having a healthy diet. Regarding your brain health, continue to participate in cognitively challenging activities, exercising parts of your brain that haven”t been used so much – new activities that are difficult (what neuropsychologist Paul Naussbaum terms .novel and complex.). Learn a new language or musical instrument; if you don”t have time for these most potent activities, try crosswords, Scrabble, bridge, sculpture or painting, but when you get good at something, move on to another cognitively challenging activity. Cognitively challenging activities as an adult, have been shown to delay the onset of Alzheimer”s disease and to slow its progression.

⚫️ Hours on the Job

A recent Japanese study of the relationship between work hours and heart attack risk revealed that men who worked, on average, 11 hours or more a day had twice the risk of heart attack. Interestingly though, those who worked less than 7 hours a day were also at increased risk. If you find your current workload comfortable and that you are taking advantage of your leisure time to perform healthy and enjoyable activities, good for you and keep up the good work!

⚫️ Optimism

Your optimism likely has a real impact upon your longevity! According to Dutch investigators who, over a decade, tracked 1,000 people ages 65 to 85, people who are open to opportunities and possibilities have a 55 percent lower risk of death; in doing so, you end up less stressed, happier, healthier and more long-lived.

⚫️ Brain Strengthening

Excellent! Your brain strengthening activities can help you delay or escape memory loss and perhaps Alzheimer”s disease.

Day 2 of The Affordable Care Act or Obamacare and confusion reigns in the USA.

The young and healthy would rather pay a penalty then sign up for insured health care.

Those with prior medical conditions will sign up quickly.

It pays to be healthy.

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@tidychick
“Are you moving to Sverige?”

I will visit there, one day.

I enjoy living in Chicago and expect to get healthier. I already walk/run/bike whenever I can in the downtown area.

Yes, the 5:2 lifestyle helps towards longevity for many of us.

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@hermajtomomi
“I confess to sometimes lying about my age, or rather failing to mention it, for professional reasons. ”

I feel the same way, since age is used to prejudge. Usually, in business, age is irrelevant as a consultant but could be a differentiator in other situations.

“I work on the fringes of the media and I fear that if some clients new my age, they would cease to send me work. ”

That’s a real concern and depending on the industry, like technology, a younger mindset or youth inclination is more prevalent.

With 5:2 fasting, we can look younger and possibly bypass the age question.

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@hermajtomomi
” In Spain they say at a certain age women must choose between “cara” or “culo” – face or butt, i.e. a nice, youthful face with large behind, or a pert little butt with a face with as many lines as a road map.”

I have not heard this saying. Depending on the situation, it could be flattering or insulting.

I know this thinking exists, probably globally.

With 5:2 lifestyle and exercising, we become healthier internally and our external looks will reflect that.

It applies to both men and women. Although, I do know that in some countries, looking overweight is a sign of financial success & prosperity.

Outliving others & living well may be the justification for our efforts and the foundation for new beliefs.

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I once had a countdown life clock that I bought from Sharper image.

The idea made so much sense to me then: track and watch the life clock count down. The object then is to do something significant before time was up. I forgot what the promotional messages were. It made sense to me then and it still makes sense to me now.

Oh, it also was electric with a battery backup. It wouldn’t make sense to have the life clock stop prematurely. Well, it did. It was more trouble than it was worth. I was more fascinated than motivated. I put it in storage and time passed.

My time passed. All our times pass.

Other things motivate us.

But the idea has never died. Someone thought to create a countdown life watch for the wrist.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/259499751/tikker-the-wrist-watch-that-counts-down-your-life?ref=search

After answering some personal questions, the time left is determined which is then entered on the watch. Then, I suppose since I don’t own one, just watch the time and get motivated.

The object is to live long and live fully.

Hmmm…

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In space, there is no concern for weight.

We brought our family with us to see the movie, Gravity. In the movie, the least of concerns were eating and maintaining weight. In such a short depiction, the audience only gets to see the dramatic moments.

In this drama, there is no concern for food.

It’s a different perspective in space than what we have here on earth where there is gravity.

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The problems with aging.

Currently, much of our technology that extends life actually extends life in poor health, while the number of years lived in good health remains unchanged.

http://mashable.com/2013/10/24/google-calico/?utm_campaign=Mash-BD-Synd-GCurrents-All-Full&utm_cid=Mash-BD-Synd-GCurrents-All-Full&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Living in a bad state of health might explain why many people have no interest in living longer.

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I wondered if we knew for certain that we could live another 100 years or at least over 100 years, in almost the healthy state that we are in now, would we want to?

Maybe put in more qualifiers, at our optimum physical, mental and emotional state?

Would you want to?

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@golfingoldy

“But I’m fascinated by the pace of change, and would love to see more of what is to come !”

So am I.

It’s coming from a technology standpoint. And processes like 5:2 are already here.

I believe it’s an attitude that’s required at this time. That attitude may be that longevity is possible for oneself and its our obligation to discover how to continually approach it.

It also gives us a stronger purpose for the actions that we take.

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@couscous

” are we as individuals or as society, mentally equipped to live active, healthy lives into 10, 11 or 12 decades or longer?. ”

There are probably very few that are mentally stable to have an extended lifespan. As humans, we are very adaptable. With a strong purpose for living longer, I see this as a lessor challenge.

“Put all other issues to one side and focus on individuality, to be living a physical and mental active life at 120 yrs old. I am not just talking about being 120 but also the surrounding generations. ”

I think the bigger issue is an emotional stability. Living longer than friends and families would be very difficult. Getting over the sadness, let downs, and unmet expectations is already difficult. Appropriate preparation and emotional balance would be required.

“Are we mentally equipped to live longer, hopefully healthy lives and, just as importantly are the younger generations, whatever their ages mentally able to live among people who are 120 plus yrs old?.”

Again, I feel that we are adaptable subject to our having meaning in our existence. With more free time available, we would want to be increasingly valuable to each other. It’s when we feel that we are a liability to our families and society that emotionally and physically we would want to check out.

“Put simply, are we prepared for longevity?.”

Longevity will happen for the majority of us that live in richer environments. Those that can afford it. People want longevity if only because we fear death more than living longer.

How do you feel knowing that you live twice as long now than your ancestors?

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“When Berardelli leaned forward and asked Caruso how he had achieved his remarkable longevity, the centenarian said with an impish smile, “No Bacco, no tabacco, no Venere—No drinking, no smoking, no women.” He added that he’d eaten mostly figs and beans while growing up and hardly ever any red meat.”

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/longevity/hall-text

Gene biotech discoveries will make significantly faster longevity strides more than “No Bacco, no tabacco, no Venere” ever did.

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