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How to live to 100 and beyond

Paul Sweeting explains the latest actuarial thinking on how to increase longevity

Paul Sweeting

03 February 2011 •

The Society of Actuaries' triennial conference - Living to 100 - held at the beginning of the year looked at the latest actuarial, epidemiological and medical developments in longevity. Or, to put it a different way, how to live longer.

Let's start with a bit on caloric restriction - in other words eating very, very little. This has been shown to extend life in a number of studies on small mammals, so it might be thought that huma...

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