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#328 - Health & Longevity

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Genetic Benefits of Centenarians

So what can we learn from centenarians and I guess you call them super centenarians, people who live to be 100 and beyond? Well, it's almost like their health span is extended by two decades or more with respect to the average population. What this tells us is that their superpower, which again is brought on genetically, is a delay in the onset of disease,. Not in a resilience to a disease once they have it.

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