We’ve been lied to about our “longer lifespans”
It's so common to hear that our ancestors were lucky to live into their 30s. People sing the praises of "modern medicine" claiming that we live so much longer thanks to it, but is that really true?
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References:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... - various historical examples
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... - Rome 72 https://sci-hub.se/10.14310/horm.2002... - median life of 71 for men which is literally the same as today
https://www.archives.gov/founding-doc... - declaration https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20... “ until the age of 30 (under Emperor Augustus, this was later lowered to 25; Augustus himself died at 75). To be consul, you had to be 43” “From 1200 to 1745, 21-year-olds would reach an average age of anywhere between 62 and 70 years”
“ life expectancy in the mid-Victorian period was not markedly different from what it is today. A five-year-old girl would live to 73; a boy, to 75.”
https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/... “once violence, child mortality and other factors are controlled for, average hunter gatherer lifespan at birth becomes 70”
https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/978-3-319-...
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1007/BF02456989
https://sci-hub.se/10.1002/ajhb.10038
https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/j.1728-445...
https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/l...
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Causes of death throughout 1900s (and cdc death tables) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/lifetab...
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nv... - excel %s - MANY people lived to be 70+
We were not dying of metabolic disease !
Life expectancy decreasing now https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
Infant mortality https://ourworldindata.org/child-mort...
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2010...
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