The Most Important Factor for Longevity

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If you really want to look at your longevity, anybody that's over the age of 40, the number one way to determine whether or not you're going to have a long life has nothing to do with your physical health.

It has everything to do with your social connection with the people that you interact with daily, weekly, monthly. Anybody over the age of 40, the number one statistic of longevity is your social connectedness.

Again, we've all seen this. We've all seen the husband and wife that basically have kept each other alive for years. And when one passes, the other one is going to pass very quickly after.

As a matter of fact, the cousin who lives here nearby that I was telling you about, that was my mother-in-law's cousin. Her mom and dad were that exact thing. They had folks that came into their home, they each took care of each other. Then she passed and he passed literally a month later.

So these are the kind of things that we've got to remind ourselves and we've got to know that the statistics are there, the research is there, but we can, almost every one of us can point to exactly those kind of stories that I'm telling.

Yeah. And I hear about those stories all the time. When one spouse passes, the other is quick to go. And it is extremely sad, but I just think it hones in on the importance of companionship.