In your circle of family and friends, how many have died in the last twelve months? Is your real world experience matching the scientific articles that report mortality rates for all age groups as “excessive”? Probable causes for death statistics that are higher than expected are listed, but calculated in a variety of ways, so it is difficult to compare to look for consensus. Plus, articles are highly technical, so they are also not easy for the general public to fully understand.

If you are a take-charge individual and want to learn from these statistics in order to improve your longevity, you might wish to dig through some of the articles with the goal of discovering some gems of data that would be appropriate for you and your physician to incorporate into your prevention program.

ISSUE: Why are mortality rates continuing to be so high in the United States?

AHHA strives to maintain a neutral position and views knowledge as power. For those interested in this month’s Issue, the following articles have been selected so that you can begin to be aware of the troubling excessive mortality rates in the United States. You are encouraged to delve deeper and expand your knowledge of this matter using these articles as a springboard.

Are humans really dying more quickly than expected? (1/12/24)
by Rob Verkerk
Alliance for Natural Health – International
“First, there appears to be a very real — not an imaginary — increase in excess deaths that was apparent throughout 2023 that is almost certainly ongoing into 2024 that is affecting younger people, not the older age groups that were most affected during the early, most lethal phase of the pandemic.
Second, there has been a consistent inability for any of the authors, funders or health authorities, that have been responsible for collating, analysing and publishing the excess mortality data considered here, to reflect on a much wider range of possible contributory factors.”

US Mortality Rates Remain Increasing Long After COVID Pandemic; Why Are Americans Dying So Young? (12/14/23)
by Conelisa N. Hubilla
The Science Times
“Public health agencies have reported that Americans are dying in abnormally high numbers long since COVID-19 waned. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf even describes this trend as a catastrophic decline in US life expectancy.
Industry analysts and actuaries predict that excess deaths will continue among people with life insurance through 2030 and will be highest at younger ages. This prediction contradicts normal mortality expectations for a vigorous population with life insurance. The worst is even expected from poorly insured Americans who are afflicted by disabilities.”

The Missing Americans: Unprecedented US Mortality Far Exceeds Other Wealthy Nations (7/14/23)
by Jillian McKoy
Boston University School of Public Health
“Comparing age-specific death rates in the U.S. and 21 other wealthy nations from 1933 through 2021, the authors find that current death rates in the US are much higher than other wealthy nations, and the number of excess U.S. deaths has never been larger.”

Annual numbers of excess deaths in the US relative to other developed countries are growing at an alarming rate (6/13/23)
by Patrick Heuveline
The Conversation
“Rising living standards and medical advances through the 20th century have made it possible for people in wealthy countries to live longer and with a better quality of life. Given that the U.S. is the largest economic power in the world, with cutting-edge medical technology, Americans should have an advantage over other countries in terms of life span and death rates.
But in the last 50 years, many countries around the world have outpaced the U.S. in how fast death rates are declining, as revealed by trends in life expectancy.”

What Is the Cause of Increased Mortality Rates? (9/2/22)
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
The Defender
“As one can see, we have lost 349,000 younger Americans to something besides COVID and non-natural death, during the period from 3 April 2021 to 13 August 2022.
The current rate of mortality in this ICD categorization, is around 5,000 – 8,000 per week … which exceeds most weeks of the COVID pandemic itself (save for the absolute peak periods). By now, if all these mortality excesses were indeed a holdover from COVID-19 itself, they should have already begun to tail off. Unfortunately, they are not only not tailing off, in many cases they are still increasing.”

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