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Everytime I see shit like this it just reminds me that the population doesn’t understand survival bias.
It could work against you, someone with that kind of health might have had the luxury of being resilient against shit that can totally harm you.
Yeah but it's still worth researching. There are all kinds of harms out there but people aren't exposed to them equally. Plus you can't distill it to "genetics" because many things are muliti-gene, plus there's also epigenetics (somewhat heritable and can even skip generations) adding an extra layer of complexity.
I agree with that, just the whole, “what’s their secret” makes it seem like they have an elixir of youth or something like that.