How long will YOU live? Find out by taking this 38-question quiz designed by longevity experts

It’s the morbid question we all desperately want to answer: When will we die?

But now a longevity expert claims to have developed a tool that could provide the answer…

Dr. Paul Savage, who runs a health clinic in Chicago focused on helping patients live longer and who has spent decades studying the aging process, created a 38-point quiz to get an overview of a maintain a person’s health.

The answers are fed into an algorithm that generates a “Longevity Score” — a person’s life expectancy — based on their health habits, family history and social activities.

Values ​​below average should encourage people to take steps to “improve their health and longevity,” said Dr. Game.

Other multiple choice options include frequency of exercise, alcohol consumption, smoking and drug use – known factors that affect health

The average life expectancy for men is 79 years in the UK and 73 years in the US, while women are expected to live up to 83 years in the UK and 79 years in the US.

Dr Savage, founder of MDLifespan Longevity Clinic, told MailOnline: “I developed the Longevity Score as a method to inspire people to assess the impact of their environment, lifestyle and the impact of their family history on their longevity.”

“As my grandfather said, ‘If you don’t look, you can’t see it, and if you don’t measure, you can’t fix it.’

Dr. Savage, a former emergency room physician who spent 25 years studying the latest research on longevity, noted that there is a long list of studies looking at aging, but said none of them translate in a “practical tool for human use”. the layman’.

His quiz, which you can access by clicking here, is based on thousands of studies on factors shown to influence aging, such as blood pressure, weight and diet.

Dr. Paul Savage, who runs a health clinic in Chicago focused on helping patients live longer, created a 38-point quiz to get an overview of a person’s health

First, users enter their gender, age, weight and height, as well as their body size and how much time they sit per day.

Nutritional questions include how many servings of fruit and vegetables someone eats and how long they fast per day. The quiz also asks how often someone consumes olive oil.

Time-restricted eating has been found to have a positive effect on blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels and blood pressure. But scientists say long-term studies are needed to confirm these effects.

Now a staple of the Mediterranean diet, olive oil is considered the gold standard for health.

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Other multiple choice options include exercise frequency, alcohol consumption, smoking and drug use.

People are also asked how long they sleep, whether they snore, how often they are tired and worried, and how stress affects them.

Too little sleep is linked to a range of medical conditions, obesity and poor mental health, while snoring is a sign of sleep apnea, which is linked to poor heart health.

It also asks how often someone reads and interacts with others and whether they floss – both of which are linked to dementia.

Routine measurements of cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar take into account family history of heart attacks, strokes, cancer and dementia, among other things.

People are also asked if they take a NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) supplement. This molecule occurs naturally in the body and is essential for converting the proteins and fats in food into energy.

However, levels decline with age and proponents claim that supplements slow the aging process and increase energy – although there is no concrete data to support this.

The tool then provides an estimated life expectancy based on the answers and directs people to make an appointment at the clinic if they want to improve their longevity score.

However, the lifetime score calculated by the tool is only an estimate.

The questions were adapted to consider factors that increase the risk of the 30 leading causes of death, including heart disease, cancer and dementia.

However, not all preventable causes of death are taken into account and fatal accidents cannot be taken into account.

Dr. Savage acknowledged that it is “difficult to determine the accuracy of the quiz,” but its goal is to help people assess the risk factors that affect their life expectancy so they can think about how they can reduce these risks.

“I want people to use this score so they can take actions that will improve their health and longevity,” he said.

“Many, if not most, risk factors for human health and longevity can be reduced through early detection, targeted prevention and intervention.”

He added: “A good longevity score can be defined by any score on a person’s life expectancy.”

“So basically any score above 73 is a good score for a man, and any score above 79 is for a woman because you beat the odds.

“Personally, I currently have a score of 86, which I am very happy with, because most of the men in my family die at the age of 70 and only one uncle lived to be 82.” I want to break our family record.

“I believe in medicine, research and our increasing ability to detect disease earlier, intervene with more therapies than ever before and prevent my premature death.”

The longevity expert offers treatments at his clinic tailored to increase life expectancy – from weight loss aids to plasma exchange therapy, which the clinic says removes “toxins” from the body.

While the treatment offered by Mr Savage only uses the patient’s own blood, a similar treatment has been adopted by billionaire biohacking guru Bryan Johnson.

The 45-year-old tech mogul, who spends $2 million a year on the quest for eternal youth, swapped blood with his teenage son in hopes of shortening his biological age.

Although the results showed no benefit from the treatment, alternative methods of plasma exchange were “promising,” he said.