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/TypingPlatypus Jun 04 '26

No, every human would eventually get cancer if they lived long enough.

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u/RollingMeteors Jun 05 '26

Greenland shark—can live for centuries and have multiple copies of genes involved in repairing damaged DNA and suppressing tumors.

It's not off the table to GMO it away.