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You noted that you manage your stress poorly. Improving your ability to manage your stress could add a year to your life expectancy

You need to get more sleep. If you could get closer to 6-8 hours of sleep a night, you could add a quarter of a year to your life

People who are optimistic about their aging fare much better. Turn your attitude around about your aging and you could add a quarter of a year to your life

Brain strengthening activities can help you delay or escape memory loss and perhaps Alzheimer's disease. While you are already doing a bunch, increasing your frequency of brain-challenging activities to twice a week could add half a year to your life.

Lifestyle

Minimizing or cutting out your caffeinated coffee consumption completely could provide you with about a quarter of a year more in life expectancy

If it is ok with your doctor, taking an 81 mg aspirin every day improves your heart and brain health and could help you delay or escape a heart attack or stroke. Taking an aspirin each day, perferably in the evening, could add 1 year to your life expectancy.

Ultraviolet rays present in sunlight and tanning beds greatly increase your risk of skin cancer, including melanoma. They also increase wrinkles. You are already providing some protection for yourself. Further minimizing your sun exposure could add a quarter of a year to your life expectancy

There is a clear link between the inflammation of gum disease and heart disease. Do a good job of flossing daily and you could add half a year to your life expectancy.

Nutrition

It is unclear if your current weight puts you at increased risk for heart disease or cancer. None the less, by no longer being overweight you would likely improve your overall health and could increase your life expecatancy by half a year or more.

Being more active in your leisure time, other than exercising, could add half a year to your life expectancy

Medical

Increasing your good cholesterol (called HDL cholesterol) to a normal or even higher level could increase your life expectancy by a year

Decreasing your systolic blood pressure (the first of the two numbers) to 120 or even lower could add half a year to your life expectancy

Decreasing your diastolic blood pressure (the second of the two numbers) to less than 80 or even lower could add a quarter of a year to your life expectancy

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