How to Use health span in a Sentence
health span
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The 3 pillars of health span Cue health span, or the number of years one is able to live disease-free.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 22 June 2023
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Many longevity experts swear by it as a way to extend health span and life span.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 3 Aug. 2023
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The goal of the competition is to extend health span, the number of years people live healthy and free of disease.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 29 Nov. 2023
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Here’s how to lengthen your health span Healthspan may be more integral to your well-being than lifespan.
—Lindsey Leake, Fortune Well, 21 May 2024
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Here are the four barriers Gori sees to extending the American health span.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 19 Jan. 2024
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Experts have estimated that the health span and life span gap is about a decade or more—meaning people live the last of their lives disabled and in pain.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 29 Nov. 2023
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Stress Loneliness is a major influence on health span, Gori said.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 19 Jan. 2024
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For aging and longevity expert Dr. Mark Hyman, stressing the body and brain is critical to lengthening health span—or the number of healthy years lived free of disease.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 15 July 2023
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Scientists are working to develop drugs that could extend dogs’ lifespans and health spans.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
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Hundreds of companies in longevity biotech are working to translate the discovery of drugs that extend health span in animals into human treatments.
—Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
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Top of mind for him in the aging space is addressing inflammation and mitochondrial issues, which are integral to extending health span.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 18 July 2023
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Moreover, there will be a significant change in the composition of the workforce—as younger age groups shrink (see graphic below), and as increasing health spans as well as changes to retirement regulations mean that older people work for longer.
—Martin Reeves, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
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The future of precision medicine using personalized data to suggest ways to extend health span is becoming more tangible.
—Salvatore Viscomi, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
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To go beyond survival and reach optimal levels of physical fitness and wellness and maximal health span and lifespan requires a deeper understanding and application of the science of nutrition.
—Ascend Agency, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2024
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