The point is that if we made the effort, there’s likely easy things we can do to extend life beyond 100.
Studying Blue Zones, for example
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
We really haven’t made an effort to study aging.
Why do some people live well into their 90’s and appear to be in good health?
Unlike modern developed countries where we have pretty good records of the exact moment of birth for people, in a lot of areas in the past, there could be a lot of guesstimating about the actual age of someone.
To me, that looks pretty damning to the theory that blue zones somehow are good for longevity.
We haven't? Just 2 seconds of googling "study aging" brings up results from places like Harvard, the NIH, RAND and hundreds of other universities where people study aging all day everyday.
I’m sure it’s getting some research but compared to other medical research I don’t think it amounts to much
[1] https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/budget/fy-2020-justification-b...
[2] https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/final-fy20-appropriations-natio...
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/benzodiazepine-use-may-r... 2014 - People who had taken a benzodiazepine for three months or less had about the same dementia risk as those who had never taken one. Taking the drug for three to six months raised the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 32%, and taking it for more than six months boosted the risk by 84%.
https://www.aarp.org/health/dementia/info-2019/dementia-slee... 2019 - The study, released today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2019, included a racially diverse group of 3,068 people, ages 70 to 79, who were cognitively healthy when the study began. Researchers questioned the participants about their use of sleeping pills and culled information about them from medical records and tests of brain function over a 15-year period.
Through traffic is physically constrained in each case - due to them being islands or peninsulas or mountain villages.