2023-06-18 07:00:10
SURVEY – It’s a prodigious leap: since 1950, the French have gained 16 years of life expectancy! Can we go further and conquer even more years of healthy life?
This article is from the “Figaro Magazine”
A little girl born today in France has a one in two chance of becoming a centenarian. Currently, life expectancy is 79.4 years for men and 85.3 years for women. Admittedly, with the Covid-19 pandemic, major flu epidemics and episodes of heat waves, progress in this area has been less rapid. But the battle for longevity does not consist in playing the extensions up to 150 years even if a Russian study, published in the journal Nature Communications, claims that we could one day reach this canonical age.
Is old age a disease like any other, from which we can recover in the future? “Like others, I am convinced of it. That doesn’t mean we won’t die anymore. But all age-related ailments will one day be eradicated. We can stay younger for longer.” affirms Jean-Marc Lemaitre, director of research at Inserm, co-director of the Institute of regenerative medicine and biotherapies of Montpellier…
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