by: Allen Weiss, MD

Which is more important to you — living as long as possible in any condition or being physically healthy and mentally happy for a slightly shorter time?

Most everyone will quickly come to the same conclusion as epidemiologist S. Jay Olshansky, PhD, expressed in a Journal of the American Medical Association 2018 article. Extending vitality is the goal for this century much the way extending life expectancy was for the last century. The positive but rather unforeseen consequences are profound.

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