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[nanothan]

It occured to me that the most logical way to approach supplementation would be from taking supplements which are meant to prevent specific causes of death, rather than just aiming for all around health.

The top 3 causes are:
1. Heart Disease
2. Cancer
3. Stroke

Click here for a detailed cause of death analysis.

Here is a nice graph of causes of death with age and gender.


There are a lot of interesting things that this approach to supplementation would imply, for example, since sucide is a large cause of death for people between 15-40, it would imply that antidepressents would be a life-extending supplement for these people. Accidents are an even larger cause of death for young people, which would imply that drugs which redue risky behavior, and even nootropics would help extend average lifespan for young people by decreasing attention problems while driving.

So it would be cool if people would start making a list/links to things which prevent the top causes of death.

Edited by nanothan, 03 December 2010 - 08:37 PM.