What does it take to live a long life?

 I think first you have to be happy enough in your skin to feel relatively at peace with yourself, otherwise people who are at odds with themselves aren't usually around very long.

The next thing that is helpful is genetics. For example, if you have any relative that lived over100 years of age this is helpful too. For example, I have a Great Grandfather who lived into his late 90s and was a northern Army Civil War Captain and his wife lived to be 105 and lived into the 1950s in Kansas.

He was born in the 1840s and lived into the 1940s during World War II also in Kansas.

The next thing that is helpful but not entirely necessary for some people is good friends and relatives that you know and love and trust. However, it's also true some people are better off living alone without people, especially people who have really bad PTSD usually from a war or other bad experiences.

The next thing helpful is a good diet with organic Foods. I happen to think this is really much more important than most people actually realize. Why?

I'm thinking that most cancers (except for skin cancer which is mostly a white people's disease from too much sun) are caused by various kinds of pollution in water and food that is grown with herbicides and pesticides.

In fact, Bees are dying all over the world from neurotoxins in foods that prevent them from finding their hives.I also believe that senile dementia and alzheimers are both related to this neurotoxin sprayed on food we eat and then in meat this is concentrated into the flesh we eat of animals who eat the sprayed grains. So, this I believe might be the primary cause of cancers (pollution of various kinds in our food and water including herbicides and pesticides).

So, diet is one of the factors in staying alive a really long time.

The next thing would be exercise. I found out a long time ago that the best exercise is something you love to do. For example, now in my life at age 74 I love to walk our Corgi dog along the beach or through the redwood forests near where I live on the Northern California coast.

So, does exercise have to be fun to continue doing it?

Probably not but if you aren't having fun exercising then how long are you going to be doing this?

Making exercise a fun thing is one of the keys to longevity I believe

By God's Grace