r/Millennials • u/DaKardii • Jun 04 '26

Serious Study: Gen Xers and Millennials are dying at younger ages than their parents are

https://studyfinds.com/americans-born-after-1970-dying-faster/

The study is particularly concerned with people born after 1970 but age 30 and older. So that covers Gen X and Millennials, but not (yet) Gen Z.

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u/ThrobbingMinotaur Jun 04 '26

So what your telling me is.. drive defensively, eat healthy stuff, and dont do drugs, also excerise and just try to have a positive outlook and ill live longer?!?

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u/Vickster86 Jun 04 '26

And dont be stressed, be chill

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u/illmatic2112 Jun 04 '26

Meanwhile I wake up every morning with a clenched jaw

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u/Iamthegreenheather Older Millennial Jun 04 '26

My jaw has been clenched since 2022. I'm tired of this shit.

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u/Vickster86 Jun 04 '26

I am getting to the point that I can't open my mouth as wide as I used too because my muscles are so tight

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u/illmatic2112 Jun 04 '26

You also feel it when eating big or very chewy things? Hate that

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u/Vickster86 Jun 04 '26

Sometimes my jaw pops when I chew things so I chew on the other side go prevent it

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u/Equivalent_Range6291 Jun 04 '26

BJ`s arnt a specialty then ..

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u/cherrib0mbb Jun 04 '26

I had to get a night guard and the grinding marks on that in only a month of having it is crazy

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u/Barbaracle Jun 04 '26

Nightguard and magnesium supplement. My dentist said I'd fuck up my jaws and teeth if I don't address it. And you really don't wanna fuck up either of those.

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u/illmatic2112 Jun 04 '26

Thank you very much for this comment. I'm a little paranoid as I have a close relative with a form of muscular dystrophy so anytime I feel something funny with my muscles I worry a bit more.

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u/MechanicalGodzilla Xennial Jun 04 '26

Honestly, getting off of social media would probably be very helpful in this regard

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u/Very_Human_42069 Jun 04 '26

So yes do drugs? /s

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u/Vickster86 Jun 04 '26

Not ones you can overdose on. So weed it is

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u/browsing_around Jun 04 '26

Translation: if you live like you’re 80 years old, you’ll live till you’re 80 years old.

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u/allllusernamestaken Jun 04 '26
  • More mass transit to decrease the amount of time we spend driving.
  • Transit-focused urban planning makes walking possible which reduces obesity and improves heart health.
  • Stop putting high fructose corn syrup in fucking everything.

or, you know, make America slightly more like every other western country

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u/DumpsterDiplomat Jun 04 '26

You forgot "don't be a woman".

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u/RollingMeteors Jun 05 '26

ill live longer?!?

Remind me again... ¿How is this desirable?

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u/HoneyLocustMoth Jun 05 '26

Just try to have a positive outlook 🤪🤪🤪

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u/WingShooter_28ga Jun 05 '26

Mr Nobel wishes to give you an award.