A method of summarising collective health within a group by calculating the average time members are expected to remain alive. Most used at the country level where the statistic is how long a newborn child is expected to live if current rates of death remain constant.
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Are actuarial life expectancy tables based on information that is 40 years out of date?
I was chatting to some older folks today that had recently attended a "retirement course" (i.e. a course that teaches you about retirement and what to expect etc.). One of the presenters apparently claimed that their life expectancy was ~100 years,…
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Life expectancy of girls born after 1970
At http://www.gero.uni-heidelberg.de/forschung/hd100.html I read - in German - that among the (western) girls born after 1970 50% will reach the age of 100.
Is this plausible?
(My wife is born in 1969 - and we never thought that the probability…
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Does electrolyzed reduced water (ERW) extend the lifespan of animals (compared to regular water)?
Among the research interests of Dr. Pablo Campra (of recent graphite-in-Covid-vaccines claim) is something called electrolyzed reduced water (ERW). One of the (Asian) groups studying this presents is as
Electrolyzed reduced water (ERW) is a…
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Did Galen Winsor swim in a spent fuel pool of a nuclear power plant?
It is claimed here from minute 50 onwards. Also he claims that he drank 2l of the water and that he ate some uranium.
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Was life expectancy at birth in the EU in 2015 about 100 years?
The paper "Living too long" by Guy C Brown published in 2015 has the following paragraph:
Human life expectancy has been increasing at a rapid rate. Better health care and hygiene, healthier life styles, sufficient food and improved medical care…
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