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On Longevity: The One Tip That Gets Forgotten
And it crucially changes how we approach life
My grandfather on my dad’s side of the family was pretty remarkable before passing away. He was a heavy smoker until his 50s, and over the course of his life he had multiple strokes and a handful of head injuries to boot.
In situations where any person would end up pretty twisted in the brain, my grandfather, somehow, came out of multiple operations stronger than before.
There was even a case where his heart was able to rewire and manoeuvre around defective organs in his body when he went through open heart surgery in his early 70s—an operation that doctors said was too risky to take in his 50s.
I remember my grandfather mostly for the times he pulled me aside as a kid and would talk to me for a while about Bible scriptures. But the more I look at the bits and pieces of my grandfather’s life and through others’ stories, the more I recognize how remarkable my grandfather was.
And how this deeply religious and gadget-obsessed man stumbled upon a strategy to be living a long life.
After all, the surgery that he had taken in his 70s should’ve given him about 15 years, and yet he was able to live for close to 20.
