Jevitty Life Science – Live Longer with Technology
For centuries, mankind has searched for the secret to longevity and a longer lifespan. While there is no secret formula to living forever, simple habits like regular exercise, eating a balanced diet and sufficient sleep can go a long way in slowing down the aging process. At Jevitty, we go a step further beyond just healthy lifestyle habits. With the help of technology, we take a data-driven approach to health. Our goal is to help you live longer with technology, adding years to your life and life to your years. By tracking key health metrics from muscle mass to bone density, we supply you with life-changing insights that improve your future. We take a holistic approach, which includes your health data and external events that may affect your lifespan.
The Three Pillars of Longevity
Quality Sleep:
Sleep is essential to our everyday lives and plays a key role in how our brain and body function. Sleep also influences our metabolism, immune function, mood and our ability to fight disease.1 When we get adequate and good quality sleep, it reduces the risk of developing conditions like obesity and high blood pressure, as well as diseases like diabetes, cancer, heart disease and stroke.1,2 Our immune function also increases during sleep and this plays a key role in preventing diseases. Sleep influences our body’s immune system and increases the ability to fight off diseases like colds, flu and other common infections.3 A stronger immune system contributes to increased life expectancy and longevity. As adults, we need between seven and eight hours of sleep every night in order to reap its benefits.
Adequate Exercise:
Another pillar of longevity is adequate exercise. Research shows that exercise has immense benefits for our health and general wellbeing. Prolonged inactivity, sedentary behavior or inadequate exercise is known as a ‘silent killer’.4 People who exercise regularly have a reduced risk of developing chronic conditions like heart disease, Type II diabetes, stroke and cancer.4 Studies show that a leading risk factor of premature death is lack of physical activity. We can increase our life expectancy and longevity by up to seven years with regular physical activity.5 It is also estimated that aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of premature death by about 32%, while those who regularly lift weight have a 14% lower risk of death.6 It is recommended that adults aged 18 to 64 years should do at least 150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity or at least 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous –intensity activity or a combination of moderate and vigorous-intensity activity throughout the week.
Quality Nutrition:
Research shows that a healthy diet can extend our lifespan by six to seven years in middle-aged adults, and by about 10 years in young adults. A diet rich in legumes (beans, peas and lentils), whole grains (oats, barley and brown rice) and nuts, and reduced amounts of red meat and processed foods is described as optimal for longevity. High amounts of processed foods, red meat, high-fat dairy products, high-sugar foods, pre-packed foods and low fruit and vegetable intake should be avoided.
Five Steps to Human Longevity
The 5 steps to human longevity include:
- Avoiding harmful behaviors (alcohol, drugs, inadequate sleep and poor nutrition):
Unhealthy lifestyle choices like smoking, drinking too much alcohol, sedentary behaviors, poor quality sleep and an unhealthy diet can decrease our lifespan. If we want to live longer, we need to make healthier lifestyle habits.8
- Adopting healthy lifestyle habits (adequate exercise, quality sleep and nutrition):
As discussed earlier, adequate exercise, quality sleep and nutrition are the three pillars of longevity. Adopting lifestyle habits that consist of these three components cannot be overemphasized. Purpose and excitement to keep you motivated.
- Therapies to stop the aging process
This is the stage where therapies arise to stop aging. Imagine being 70 years old and having the blood quality of a 22 year old athlete, your quality of life improves exponentially.
- Therapies to reverse the aging process
Therapies are created that can reverse aging in humans and bring them back to their prime age of 22. “Bringing you back to your personal factory settings” - Jerry Kroll CEO
- A personal Ai guardian angel:
This is your guardian angel. This Ai component backed by big data can warn you before crossing the road at a busy intersection, it could warn you not to eat at a restaurant because of poor food quality or a history of food poisoning. Reducing the amount of threats to humans and supplying safer options when available.
So, What is Jevitty…?
Jevitty is a mobile app designed to help you measure and analyze your health data, thereby ensuring that you can lead a longer and healthier life.
Jevitty Score
At Jevitty, we aspire to extend the lifespan of each user in order to reach 200 years old or even more. This can be achieved through understanding what it takes for an individual’s body to stay healthy throughout the course of their lifetime. As we continue to explore new therapies and technologies, we will continue to innovate and assist people in adding years to their lives and life to their years. The Jevitty Score is a reflection of your health potential out of 200. With the Jevitty app acting as your longevity dashboard, the Jevitty Score combines the app’s algorithm and your VO2 max to give you an easy to understand score for your life expectancy. As you adjust your lifestyle, habits and behaviors and update these factors, the Jevitty score will reflect improvements. We, thus, provide you with an accurate, easy to use tool to understand how your lifestyle, actions and habits affect your longevity.
The Algorithm
The Jevitty algorithm consists of questions similar to an insurance pre-assessment. How much do you drink? How many hours a day do you sleep? How often do you exercise? The Jevitty app gives you a projected lifespan/ number of years you could live based on your actuarial algorithm, considering your current lifestyle, age, activity level and body composition. Jevitty combines a series of these questions along with VO2 max to predict your life expectancy.
VO2 Max
The VO2 max is the gold standard in the fitness industry for measuring overall health of an individual. It refers to how much oxygen your body can absorb and use during exercise.10 It is calculated by how well your body absorbs and uses oxygen. A high VO2 max is a good predictor of your athletic performance. It is also a good determinant of your heart and lung health. The higher your VO2 max level, the higher your life expectancy.10
Jevitty Scan
The Jevitty Scan is a full body scan that provides an in-depth look at your body composition allowing you to develop a greater understanding of your body and what to do to improve your life expectancy. The scan is carried out by our body composition technicians who operate the DXA scanners. The scan shows all of your body’s important measurements such as lean mass, bone density, body fat percentage and its distribution. Following the body scan, our technicians will also provide you with specific activities and behaviors based on your report that will help improve your health and increase your lifespan. The Jevitty technicians will go through all of the metrics with you, from the muscle imbalances to bone density and even visceral fat percentages. The technicians then help you plan and build towards a healthy and happy life.
How to use Jevitty
To maximize your experience with our app and services, we suggest the following:
- A wearable health tracker such as the Apple watch or Oura ring
- A smart scale to track weight, muscle mass and body fat
- An aware device that measures air quality including harmful substances
Jevitty aims to be the number one app for maintaining health and longevity. By helping you track your unique biomarkers, body composition data and behaviors, Jevitty will be a wealth of information for the human body.
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- MedlinePlus(2020). National Library of Medicine. Sleep and your health.https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000871.htm
- NHS (2021).Benefits of exercise. Live Well. https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/exercise-health-benefits/
- Reimers C.,Knapp G. and Reimers A. (2012). Does physical activity increase lifeexpectancy? A review of the literature. J Aging Res. 2012; 2012: 243958. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395188/
- GorzelitzJ. et al. (2022). Independent and joint associations of weightlifting andaerobic activity with all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality inthe prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer screening trial. BritishJournal of Sports Medicine 2022;56:1277-1283. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/22/1277
- WHO (2022).Physical activity. Key facts. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/physical-activity
- TheConversation (2022). Changing your diet could add ten years to your life – newresearch. https://theconversation.com/changing-your-diet-could-add-ten-years-to-your-life-new-research-176494
- WebMD(2022). 12 ways to feel and look younger. https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/features/promote-the-aging-process
- Jewell T. (2022). Everything to know about VO2Max. Healthline.
