We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
neither of those people are debilitated or disabled and therefore health by health span you know by traditional health span metrics they're both equal but they're nowhere near equal and so that's problem one that i have with the way we as a community talk about health span
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one of the biggest challenges i have with health span is i don't think that that we have great ways of describing this in medicine i think there's several issues with it the first is um our definitions i think are not wonderful right we talk about freedom from disability and disease but that doesn't really capture it
freedom from disability and disease but that doesn't really capture it
the standard definition the period of Life free of disease or disability is totally insufficient in my view
I don't like the medical definition of Health span which I believe is quote the period of time in which an individual is free of disability and disease I find that to be a very unhelpful definition because it be but part of the reason it's awful is it's binary yeah and silly
our definitions I think are not wonderful right we talk about freedom from disability and disease but that doesn't really capture it I I can tell you A lot of people who don't qualify for having disability or disease but their health span is still poor
I don't like the medical definition Health span which I believe is quotee the period of time in which an individual is free of disability and disease I find that to be a very unhelpful definition because it but part of the reason it's awful is it's binary yeah and that's ex silly but if we made it analog instead of digital right I'm not saying that makes it easy it's still very challenging but now it allows us to start talking about things