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Interventions that promote longevity, remembered by mnemonic: DEEP purple - “eat colorful plant foods: D ietary modification, E xercise, active E ngagement, P urposeful living (click here to enlarge the image ). Based on a Mayo Clinic Proceedings article ( https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)30792-4/ ): Exceptional Human Longevity : the oldest old have an extreme phenotype of delayed onset of age-related diseases and/or resistance to lethal illnesses occurring earlier in life. Centenarians have delayed onset of chronic diseases During the span of human history the likelihood of living from birth to age 100 rose from 1 in 20 million to 1 in 50 as of year 1995 (for females in low-mortality nations such as Japan and Sweden). By 2009, this probability increased to 1 in 2. About 1 in 5,000 persons in the United States is a centenarian or older. Human longevity now exceeds 115 years. However, maximum life span has remained largely unchanged. There is a limit to huma...

From Mayo Clinic: To protect against cervical cancer and other cancers caused by HPV infection, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is now recommending that 11- and 12-year-olds receive two doses of HPV vaccine at least six months apart. This is a change from the previously recommended three-dose series. The CDC says adolescents ages 13–14 also can receive the HPV vaccine on the new two-dose schedule. However, those who start the series later will continue to need three doses. Self-administered HPV Test is one of the Top 10 Medical Innovations 2017, selected by the Cleveland Clinic: