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New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely
(lafollette.wisc.edu)
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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Hrmmmm, wonder what could be causing that?
a) Microplastics
b) Increase in CO2 in the lower atmosphere
c) Runoff and chem dumping
d) Horrible diets and processed foods
e) Increasing temps at ground level
f) All of the above
Aaaaannndddd, if you’re in the US:
g) Expensive healthcare
h) Administration turning their backs on science
Also i) PFAS and teflon.
Or just, like, humans have difficulty living to 100 regardless, and we'd need a major medical breakthrough to continue improving?
Don't overthink it.
The reality of living over 100 is that most of the studies on ageing are just poorly done. Epidemiologists are a meme to the biomedical research community. These are the clowns that triggered the Mediterrean diet, the Okinowa diet, etc. without validating the ages of the people being studied. A decade later: people live longer in regions of Greece or Italy because of familes engaged in pension fraud, and Japanese longetivity was tied to poor record restoration by the US army. One guy figured out people >100 in Japan somehow were born on the 1st or 15th of every month.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/12/25/lifestyle/lifespan-japan-data/
I once got downvoted to hell on Reddit for pointing this out. People really want to live long, and there's a lot of motivated reasoning around it.
Yeah, I think the biggest cause was actually not groundbreaking stuff, but our understanding of microorganisms and our changes in hygiene (all summarized in better education).
The fact we treat many diseases now helps, but I think it makes for a much smaller percentage.
Vaccines. Antibiotics. Cardiac drugs.
All now no longer researched.