Tick-tock, tick-tock: how much time do I have left?
The Life Expectancy ScienceFact
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Everyone wants to know, we have the answer: "How old will you be?" The life expectancy calculator asks specific questions, looks at your everyday habits and determines - based on 16 factors - how long you can take to choose your gravestone. Incidentally, you should think about this carefully and - if you want to avoid unpleasant surprises - not leave it to your family. Unless you want to see "I had the right of way" carved in stone under your name.
And before you assume that we have succumbed to a morbid fascination and are preoccupied with things that most people like to suppress from their consciousness as much as possible, we would like to focus on the actual purpose of the life expectancy calculator: its potential to bring about changes in lifestyle through the cold shower of facts and thus improve the predicted lifespan by up to 40 years! Living 40 years longer - you have to get your head around that! And all because you tweak a few things in your everyday life! Yes, now you're listening again, aren't you?
The ScienceFact Life Expectancy Calculator is now online. You can test it here.
Published: 18.10.2023 – sonares
How long we live depends on a lot of things
Our lifespan is not a predetermined verdict that we cannot appeal against or a fate that we must submit to. It is plastic, elastic and can be influenced every day by even the smallest of our decisions. In other words: if you want to live long (or longer), you can do something about it.
Taking women aged 40 as an example, they can live an average of 22.6 years longer through a combination of physical activity, not smoking, stress management, a healthy diet, moderate alcohol consumption, regular sleep, positive social relationships and avoiding opioid painkillers. For men, the difference is as much as 23.7 years.
The Life Expectancy OPTIMIZER
Whether you are living through your wild twenties and making so many plans that the smoke alarm at home goes off from all the smoke coming out of your head, or at sixty you haven't even got through a third of your must-go/read/see's and are starting to panic - with the life expectancy calculator you can quickly and scientifically determine the exact factors that are messing with your life expectancy and causing it to shrink - and in the next step, ruthlessly put an end to them. But it's not just on an individual level that ScienceFact proves to be a lifeline out of an unhealthy lifestyle. With its help, society as a whole can also switch on its "aha" light bulb and, illuminated by facts and science, find its way back to healthy behavior and habits. The life expectancy calculator is therefore not a dry piece of factual rusk, but a juicy piece of knowledge cake that, after we have taken it to heart, not only increases our waist circumference, but also our lifespan. What more could you want?
Scientific background
The ScienceFact was developed by Dr. Hannes Guhl, a physicist and mathematician, who evaluated 40 studies over a three-year period and created a precise calculation model for calculating life expectancy. His work was scientifically supported by Prof. Dr. Karl Michael Ortmann, who holds the professorship for mathematics at BTH and checked the resulting algorithm down to the smallest detail. The BHT (Berlin University of Applied Sciences) is a renowned state university in Berlin and shapes the educational and research environment in Germany with around 70 courses of study in eight departments and a dedicated teaching staff of 290 professors. If you are looking for innovative, applicable and practice-oriented courses of study as well as interdisciplinary research activities, BTH is the right place for you.
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There are not yet as many studies in the world of science as there are stars in the sky, but the difference is probably marginal. Research is being carried out in all kinds of areas, on a wide variety of topics - which is great and deserves thunderous applause - and yet, unless a study is making waves in the media due to its explosive nature or you actively and purposefully go looking for it, you rarely hear about it in your everyday life.
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