The actual (not averaged) human longevity didn’t change during 2 million years

This page was created in response to a human longevity related comment we received from our visitor mentioning a dramatic increase in it achieved by modern medical science, and our negative comments on damaging side effects from often prescribed by mainstream medical practitioners medications.

I would like to look at the actual reasons behind the increase of human longevity statistics and then suggest you to review our Prescription Solutions page, not to lose a focus on a need to protect ourselves from dangers of many mainstream medical approaches to treating our health issues.

Skeletons of people from 2 millions years ago found by archeologists show that their genetic makeup was practically identical to ours, in spite of significant changes in our modern lifestyles.

We are privileged to have and use results of a progress in civilization – science and technology created wonderful conveniences for us, but they were often not very good for our health. Our drinking water page gives some examples of what these conveniences often bring to our lives.

If we look at latest health and human longevity related statistics, it’s not so surprising that rates of

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* cancer
* heart disease
* autism
* neurodegenerative conditions
* autoimmune diseases are on what appears to be a permanent upswing during the last decades. And this is not even considering damage to our health we have to deal with as a result of dramatic changes to our diets, including quality of our mostly processed foods. They also negatively affect our health.

But, you can still ask – why then statistics of the life expectancy changed so positively during last 100-150 years?

About 100-150 years ago an AVERAGED human life expectancy of 40 years was considered normal. How can it be explained without losing focus on protecting our health and preventing many dangerous diseases which came to our lives during the same period of time?

The answer is in definite achievements of specific segments of our medical science and some changes in our lifestyle – not requiring us to hunt dangerous wild animals to put food on the table. These lifestyle changes earned their respectable share in reducing number of humans beings killed at very young age.

But many times more important is to acknowledge that 150 and more years ago humans didn’t have antibiotics, hospitals, doctors and trained surgeons so they were killed in very large numbers at a very young age, by infections and trauma.

Even 150 years ago when results of statistics started being noted, it wasn’t uncommon for women mostly between the ages 18-25 to die during childbirth.

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Most children living in the crowded, unhygienic cities of the 1800s died of infectious diseases, also dramatically lowering the AVERAGED longevity.

Just these few above considerations provide a convincing explanation for the AVERAGED life expectancy numbers becoming so much higher during the last century and half.

People who survived these dramatically reducing longevity events had the life expectancy very similar to our current one. Human genetic makeup didn’t change during this period, as it was already noted on the top of this page. There wasn't any actual life extension during the last 2 million years discovered by our science.

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