Used the Life-Expectancy be Longer?

[cafetimes1991]

Has anyone heard the theory that the human life-expectancy used to be longer? I'm not talking about Atlantis, I mean 50, 100, 500 years ago.

[clozaril]

nah you'd be lucky to make it to 30 100yrs ago well 150 yrs ago

[cleft_asunder]

I have come across this idea coming from some Native American's. Only 1 or 2. They said that their people lived up to 150 years. This would not surprise me given that some people live to be 120. If it is true, then it has to do with diet, clean air, clean water, and clean everything.

[stelios]

well according to many historic texts life expectancy used to be much higher.
dont forget food and nutrition used to be much better.
And there was no pollution or man made food additives and chemicals.
Medicines have destroyed our immune systems as have vaccines so a pre vaccine pre drug age would have meant healthy people.
But ofcourse there was violence and wars and stuff which meant people got killed like what happens today in Iraq and Palestine etc.

So i think if people were living in peaceful areas then they probably did live longer.
Today the places where people live the longest are Okinawa in Japan, Abkhazia, and a couple of other places including Northern Pakistan.
These areas dont have cancer or heart attacks and people eat natural healthy foods.

I expect human lifespans to fall not rise because more vaccines and drugs and food additives are going into our diet every day as well as pesticides and herbicides etc.

[chris]

I think we are living longer than in civilisation the past 1,000 years however our quality of life is way down...We are on medication from the age of 40 now and when we're 80, we are basically spastics, whereas before people were living to 100+ and being very quick.

Also what brought down our life expectancy in the past was that we had a very high infant mortality rate...Yet when a child were to grow into an adult, he could expect to live 90+

I have actually heard that for the first time that our life expectancy is dropping (only very slightly though) in a few areas of the modern world...

[lordzoma]

I am under the impression that supposely, the oxygen on earth use to be much much higher, and that higher oxygen content in the atmosphere may have promoted extremely long life spans.

Within the time frame of recent human civilization, this would mean that if this is the case, some catastrophic event, potentially the great flood which Icke discusses as the shifting of water from mars to the earth by venus, would have had to also introduce massive quantities of carbon dioxide to lessen the oxygen ratio and fuck up the life span.

[madthumbs]

nah you'd be lucky to make it to 30 100yrs ago well 150 yrs ago

Depends on where you were. Don't trust dodgy stats that include war, infant mortalities, and mainstream medical genocide.

[milston1]

I read a little about acient Chinese traditions and a way of life called Tao. It's all about essence, spirit, energy. Within the teaching of the Tao are simple things that we don't know about or choose to disregard, or are rather conditioned into not taking head to them. These thing are al simple everyday things like: correct breathing (how many of you have ever really been conscious of your breathe. Not many. We take it for granted, yet it is the most important thing), correct sexual conduct (we ingage in sexual activity everyday, or near enough, either with ourselves or other. Have you ever question yourself " is this right". The ancients, advocated sex, but in accordance with your health and age. A healthy person of 30 years should ejaculate only one or twice every 28 days. Basically every time you ejaculate you rid yourself of essential essence that your body can use and store to build you up in the physical, spiritual, and mental dimensions. The ancients also practiced proper diet, exercise etc. There are reports of many people living to 150 is and beyond.

[clozaril]

Depends on where you were. Don't trust dodgy stats that include war, infant mortalities, and mainstream medical genocide.


i agree, in the industrial world it was a very low life expectancy.

i remember must of been 10 yrs ago went to a rave in an old church in york and a mr andy weatheral was djing anyaways the floor of the chucrch was headstones.

i was dancing away then looked down and read the head stone
the person was 21 yrs old when they died i looked to another one 19 yrs and so on, all very young from 1830's 1850. and i was shocked to be honest i thought in the olden days people lived to roughly the same age as they do now.

[kingmonkey]

stress, pollution, alienation from our natural environment, dodgy medicines, overwork, Bad diet, The list goes on...

Most food these days is much less beneficial to us as well due to aggressive farming methods which is a big factor.Modern veggies are all weak strains that rely on maintenance from the farmer to grow. Back in the old days there were thousands of varieties of each fruit & vegetable that were vastly stronger and more resilient. The peanut for instance is so weak from over farming it's in danger of becoming extinct and the original plant from which that particular type came is lost in the rainforest. So if ya like peanuts, stock up!

The industrial revolution was when things really began to go tits up.

[madthumbs]

Most food these days is much less beneficial to us as well due to aggressive farming methods which is a big factor.

A lie the alternative health industry wants us to believe. It has more to do with food additives and the processing of food.

[sweheretic]

I am under the impression that supposely, the oxygen on earth use to be much much higher, and that higher oxygen content in the atmosphere may have promoted extremely long life spans.

Within the time frame of recent human civilization, this would mean that if this is the case, some catastrophic event, potentially the great flood which Icke discusses as the shifting of water from mars to the earth by venus, would have had to also introduce massive quantities of carbon dioxide to lessen the oxygen ratio and fuck up the life span.

aging is a bi-product of being alive (pseudo-quote De Grey). the metabolic function process sludge and nutrients to power and clean the cell, the bad side is they take damage from doing so in the long run. more oxygen would probably mean cells metabolized (I totally invented that word me thinks) faster and thus making us age faster... actually I got no clue, not sure WHY we age, but this is one of the current views in science at least (so it's probably dead wrong)

I should just shut up now