You are old, have high blood pressure and too much fat in your body? Don’t worry. The high blood pressure and the fat may increase your life span. What is unhealthy as young person may be beneficial in older age. At least, medical studies show that decreasing blood pressure in very old people does not increase life time but maybe shortens it and the statistic shows that old people with more fat are living longer than thin old people. Just think about it: more fat means more energy reserves if the person gets ill and higher blood pressure enables blood flow also when the resistance of the arteries is increased because of deposits etc. "Adaptive senectitude: the prolongevity effects of aging."
David G. Le Couteur and Stephen J. Simpson. The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 66.2 (2011): 179-182.
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