Bloom: Harvard study shows age-50 relationship satisfaction best predicts age-80 health
Sahil Bloom · The New Rich Do This | Sahil Bloom · Feb 5, 2025 · at 48:10
Author and former investor Sahil Bloom discusses research on longevity, well-being, and redefining wealth beyond financial metrics.
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“The Harvard study of adult development is this incredible longitudinal study that was done over the course of 85 plus years. They tracked the lives of 1300 original participants and then all of their descendants, so like about 2000 plus people, and they found that the single greatest predictor of physical health at age 80 Was relationship satisfaction at age 50.”
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