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Life Expectancy Blog Posts

Are Wimbledon champions really getting older?
12-Jul-2024

Are Wimbledon champions really getting older?

Has this century seen extraordinarily long-lived Wimbledon champions, or are winners over 30 years of age the new normal?

If you stopped ageing today, how long would you live?
23-May-2024

If you stopped ageing today, how long would you live?

Not as long as you might think. For radical life extension we need to reverse ageing.

Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases
28-Jun-2023

Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases

The data and science behind the exponential growth in mortality with age

Can love defeat death?
13-Feb-2023

Can love defeat death?

Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage

A coffee a day keeps the grim reaper away
16-Feb-2016

A coffee a day keeps the grim reaper away

Relief for the many people who think their coffee habit is a guilty pleasure

Under 44? Get ready to live forever!
09-Sep-2015

Under 44? Get ready to live forever!

A look at the latest UK life expectancy at 65 statistics - annual increase has been growing since 1960

NICE will have to approve all one-off interventions as life expectancy increases
03-Nov-2014

NICE will have to approve all one-off interventions as life expectancy increases

What to do when quality-adjusted life years could mean many, many years?

Classic exponential growth in age distribution of older UK citizens
21-Oct-2014

Classic exponential growth in age distribution of older UK citizens

1 in 50 people are over 85 today - that's 20x the percentage who reached that age in 1881

National Geographic get it wrong - this baby will live forever
03-May-2013

National Geographic get it wrong - this baby will live forever

People who are already middle-aged could make it to 120 - by the time today's baby's get that old they'll still be young