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Humans may have already reached peak life span, new research suggests.Researchers found that since 1990, the average lifespan has only risen 6.5 years.Experts explain the findings.While the human life span has increased markedly since the 19th century, new research shows that despite recent advancements in medicine, we may have reached our longevity peak—and most of today’s children are unlikely to live to 100.
Some of this gain is that people have come into old age in better shape, and some of this gain is due to better health care, but the additional years of life since 1960 are mostly not related to medical technology,” he explains.Medicine is organized to target a single disease at a time, he continues. “With aging, many diseases increase in onset exponentially. So, preventing one doesn’t prevent the others.
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