The chart above reflects the typical leading causes of death in the United States. These numbers are generally published by the CDC. This chart was adapted from data published in 2016 by Johns Hopkins and the National Center for Health Statistics.  Johns Hopkins’ researchers discovered that the third leading cause of death was actually due to medical error.  

1. Heart Disease kills over 600,000 people each year in the United States.
2. Cancer kills over 590,000 each year in the United States.
3. Medical Error kills approximately 250,000 each year because so many people are chronically ill and in and out of hospitals. They increase their odds of dying from medical error. 

Most of the remaining diseases listed, with the exception of accidents and suicide, have a close relationship to all age-related chronic diseases higher on the list.

Many of these deaths can be avoided with proper information and lifestyle. One big paradigm shift to fighting chronic disease is the study and practice of anti-aging medicine. Now that new and advanced testing capabilities exist, a scientist can study reducing the one big common denominator with all chronic disease, age. If we can slow and reverse the biological age of people, the hope is we can increase and improve the lives of millions. 

Two things we know for sure:

1. Epigenetic aging can be slowed. In fact, it may be proven soon that epigenetic aging can even be reversed much faster than once believed. 
2. Your age is inversely related to chronic diseases for most people. Few youths die of heart attacks or Alzheimer’s, so if we can slow the aging process, we can potentially delay early deaths due to many of the leading chronic diseases killing Americans each year and costing the healthcare industry billions. 

If we can slow or reverse aging, we can begin to improve life expectancy since many of our major diseases killing most Americans today are related to age-related chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, stroke, and others.