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the hard part not mentioned is, being born to the right parents. Genetics are such a big part of it. The items you listed are more short term boosts to longevity. I am sure many of can point to countless relatives who don't do a thing on the list and just keep on going and others will have done everything right and drop dead before 60.

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An interesting theory that seems to make sense to me, is that in a sense who you're born to determines your eating habits. The recipes handed-down from the ages are my wife and I's go-tos, even when they are unhealthy at times.

Actually, human behavior genetics studies suggest that all-cause mortality (and, thus, longevity) has about the lowest calculated "heritability" (which concretely means resemblance among closely related persons) of any measurable human behavioral characteristic. Increases in life expectancy are happening to everybody, and most causes of death have a big stochastic or environmental component in their actual manifestation in individuals.

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