According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the health care and social assistance industry will create some 28% of all the new jobs in the U.S. from 2010 to 2020, as extended longevity and an aging population push up demand for all kinds of health care professionals.

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Improved longevity means enormous expansion in care and services for the aging, advances in orthopedics, and an explosion in devices to both treat and monitor chronic illness.

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Longevity genes appear to slow down the aging process by making cells and tissues more stress-resistant, better able to withstand the inevitable environmental insults that accumulate over a lifetime from bad diet, inflammation, radiation, genetic mutations and toxic chemical by-products called free radicals.

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