Longevity researcher Gary Brecka claims he can add seven years to your lifespan using insights from 22 years analyzing life-insurance data. With a decade of medical records, insurers could predict death to the exact month. He argues that releasing this dataset on 371 million lives would transform how we approach health.
If you do what I ask you to do today, I will add 7 years, not just to the lifespan, but to the healthspan of every person in this room. And like, what qualifies me to make that statement? Well, for 22 years, I was a mortality researcher for large life insurance companies, which meant that if we got 10 years of medical records on you and 10 years of demographic data, we could tell the insurance company how long you had to live to the month. And I do get a lot of flak for saying that, but the truth is it's some of the most accurate science in the world. If you look at what happened during the 2008-2009 financial services crisis, we had in the United States 3 364 banks fail. Not a single life insurance company failed because life insurance companies have data that no other enterprise has. They know the day, the time, the location, and the cause of death for 371 million lives. And they take that data, they triangulate it back into the record, and then we can predict mortality within a month. And I would always say that if that database that I used to have access to could just see the light of day, it would permanently change the face of humanity.
