Enjoyable Ways to Increase Your Longevity With Little Effort

Older men who date younger women might help us all live longer, according to science.

Adding years to your life is about more than diet and exercise. (Photo by Robert Anderson on Unsplash)

Your partner may contribute to increasing your longevity more than blood relatives do.

In some ways, you don’t have to do anything to add years to your life. Can you imagine in your wildest dream or scariest nightmare how older men having relationships with young women benefit you? Scientists have theories about it.

If someone wanted to know the best way to estimate life expectancy, what would you say? “Genes”? That’s how most people would answer. After all, we learned it in school. Recent data analyses of hundreds of millions of people create a wrinkle in that teaching, though. Researchers present a not-in-the- blood relationship factor that raised my eyebrows.

Non-genetic relationships play bigger roles than you thought.

One of my friends says she’s only attracted to fit, sculpted men. Six-packs and bulging biceps make her tingle all over and purr with delight. I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. But I did when I told her fit, sculpted men are attracted to fit, sculpted ladies — people who prioritize health and fitness like people who do the same.