Americans Are Getting Sicker & Expected Longevity is Plateauing Worldwide

Americans Are Getting Sicker

Expected life spans are plateauing worldwide, and the United States isn’t exempt from this trend. This suggests that life-extending advances in medicine, food safety, and plumbing may have reached their limits in preserving the quality and functional life of humanity. The decline in American life expectancy started prior to global trends and the onset of the pandemic, suggesting deep-rooted systemic problems requiring immediate action.

The American medical system has implicitly, if not explicitly, promised Americans better health and longer lives, but what’s happening is the complete opposite. Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and dementia are skyrocketing. Young adult dementias have at least doubled in people aged 45 to 64 since 2013 (according to an article in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers 2016 and others). We’re seeing that one in two Americans are going to have cancer in their lifetime. Now, one in two young adult cancers have gone up over 70% in the last 10 years…