Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology?

owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

No.

People have lived into their 80s for millenia. Average lifespan used to be shorter because of the amount of infant mortality. That is, anyone who made it out of childhood was likely to make it at least to their 60s, barring things like war and plague.

The simpler explanation is that the study is cookydooks.

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