While older people may prompt us to question our lifestyles because of their long lives, scientists caution against taking health advice from them.
Scientists are still trying to find out why some people cross hundreds and therefore urges not to believe people based on non-scientific information.
Survivorship Bias
Scientists have presented two theories to explain people that cross 100 in today’s age and time and both have a similar conclusion.
The first theory suggests that just because older people have certain habits, doesn’t qualify those habits to be good, also known as survivorship bias.
As an example, Richard Faragher, a professor of biogerontology says most centenarians are smokers, which doesn’t mean smoking will make you live longer.
Genetics
He second theory suggests that the fact centenarians live longer is because of certain genetic features that help them do so.
Faragher said both theories resulted in the same conclusion of avoiding to take advice from older people because they are ill equipped to give you any science-based information.
