American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

From the article: About 3 million Americans die every year. Compared with other rich countries, we die at an alarmingly higher rate: One-quarter of those deaths wouldn’t have occurred if America were only as deadly as its peers.

Zoom in, and things get even more concerning: Among Americans younger than 65, almost half of deaths wouldn’t happen if we had a death rate that matched our peers. Among those aged 25 to 44, a group we call “early adults,” it’s 62 percent—nearly two out of three deaths at those early ages.

We’re mortality experts, and these facts stem from an analysis we did of death rates in 22 countries from 1980 through 2023 (the last year with reliable data). When we set out to do this research, we expected to find a story about the COVID-19 pandemic. America’s pandemic experience was much worse than that of our peers, with three U.S. deaths for every two in peer countries. Nonelderly Americans in particular were hit harder than nonelderly populations in other rich countries. This disadvantage only grew as vaccinations became available but were adopted by Americans at lower rates.

But what surprised us was that, from today’s postpandemic vantage point, the American health disadvantage doesn’t look like a pandemic story at all. The U.S. mortality disadvantage has been growing at about the same rate for years, and while it spiked during COVID-19, it still continues to rise.

Here’s another way to put this: In 2023 there were about 700,000 “missing Americans”—those who died in 2023 but would be alive if they had lived somewhere else. And that 700,000 is almost exactly the number that we could’ve predicted back in 2019, based solely on prepandemic trends. COVID and relatively low vaccine adoption are a problem for Americans. But our country seems to be, at a deeper level, a deadly place to live. What’s more, all of the studies we have (with some limited exceptions, like a study specific to California) stop before Donald Trump began his second term with enormous cuts to medical and health research and, now, to Medicaid.

There is a heated—and productive—debate about exactly why the U.S. is so much worse than our peers at keeping its populace alive. One influential theory focuses on deindustrialization and the way that Americans without a college degree in particular have been left behind. Another focuses on the way that social safety nets in this country, such as for unemployment, sickness, and pensions, remain small and insufficient compared with other wealthy countries. Others point to problems in the U.S. health care system, such as uninsurance, underinsurance, and high co-payments and deductibles, and to underlying trends in chronic diseases that might be caused by nutritional policy failures. Still others highlight America’s permissive gun laws and the large amount of time we spend in our cars.

These theories, which aren’t mutually exclusive, all predate COVID-19 and offer plausible explanations for the growing U.S. mortality disadvantage.

But our research also uncovered one population for whom the pandemic does look like a longer-term turning point for the worse. And that population is a worrisome one: Americans early in their adulthood, those aged 25 to 44—that is, millennials, as well as some older members of Gen Z .

Before 2010, the estimated lifespan for American early adults increased every year. Deaths from HIV and cancer were plummeting. Homicides had fallen dramatically, and fatalities from circulatory disease, a major cause of death at every adult age, were also falling in this age group. But sometime after 2010, for almost every cause of death, this changed. Early adults proved especially susceptible to drug overdose deaths as synthetic fentanyl swept the country, but also became increasingly likely to die in car collisions and from digestive diseases and diabetes, and stopped making much progress in death rates from circulatory disease.

TLDR we drive more than a lot of other countries and are fat. I actually didn’t read this but that’s usually the reason. 

TLDR: The cycle of benign neglect and deliberate financial parasitism causes deaths from systemic inequality.

I know at last 10 people in the last five years that died from fentanyl overdose and there weren’t junkies just casual recreational pill poppers .. so fentanyl is definitely a factor I always said I know more people that died from fentanyl than covid

I wonder if this also lines up equally to the states and areas where life expectancy is lowest. Primarily in the southern states.

I didn’t read the article but I’ve heard that us Millennials are getting colon cancer at higher rates bc we’ve had a processed food diet for our entire lives. Don’t forget your fiber and vegetables people!!!!!

Given how stressed out the financial and world situation is, I don’t bode well for a long life… and on the other hand, I don’t even know if there’s anything to regret looking at today’s world

So, having actually read the article, the reason the authors imply appears to be a constellation of factors that includes reduced and continually declining socio-economic opportunities, experiential trauma, lack of affordable healthcare throughout their lives (resulting in acute and chronic under-care), and deaths of despair (suicide, alcoholism, and drug overdoses). Those are the unique elements that separate millennials from other American cohorts that also experience additional deaths due to car accidents, gun deaths, and so on.

The result is that not only due American milennials have higher mortality than most other demographic peer groups, but it is likely to worsen over time because these issues are unlikely to be addressed.

It’s the food.

But also, this generation was the last to be promised a “future” by going to college. 

Instead we left school, hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, only to find the housing market collapsed, and all of our jobs being offshored in the process. 

… but for real GMO roundup ready crops

Don’t let the genetically modifed boogeyman scare you, ask why exactly its genetecially modified.

Answer: So we can spray it with chemical weed killer, so it doesn’t mold. Then we’ll put it in literally everything. 

The article completely ignores C19 vaccine status. Just how “Safe and Effective” were they?

Certainly couldn’t have been the experimental gene therapy that was forced onto the population.

Hasn’t obesity and blood sugar gone through the roof since 1981.

Millennial checking in here, I haven’t been to a doctor in 8 years.