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Oct 13, 2024

Have We Maxed Out on Life Expectancy Gains?

Posted by in category: life extension

This is about life expectancy, not radical life extension.


A new study has suggested that radical life extension is all but impossible in this century [1], and it has made waves among people interested in living longer.

A paper titled “Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century” was destined to ignite controversy in the longevity community. Published in Nature Aging, it lists Jay Olshansky as its corresponding author, a renowned researcher who has been studying the populational dynamics of life expectancy for decades. We delved deeper into this study and reached several prominent community members for comments.

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