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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Surviving this long with a good quality of life is even rarer. While the exact genes that result in such life extensions are debated, one thing is clear: They all share one thing in common. They get the diseases of ageing about 20 to 25 years later than everyone else. Much later onset of disease.

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Why Exercise Is The Key To A Longer Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. Let’s start with the most basic measures and then examine increasingly complex ones.

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