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I'm looking for a chart which appears in Peter Attia's book Outlive. The chart shows that the only reason that life expectancy in the U.S. has increased since 1920 is because we eliminated 8 infectious diseases via vaccination, antibiotics, and sanitation.
I want to find the original source and study for this chart. The author of the study is Robert J. Gordon.
Where is it? Why is this impossible to find? Google, you suck.
AFAIK this is not true. There's been lots of progress in reducing cancer deaths too. Brief overview: https://ourworldindata.org/cancer#is-the-world-making-progress-against-cancer
I would like to see more data. Besides cancer, there are several other modern improvements that should have increased life expectancy. Off the top of my head:
But perhaps this is offset by:
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There may be a non-trivial tradeoff here.
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