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How to live 9 years longer

Easier and cheaper than you think

Victor Rotariu
12 min readMay 31, 2021
Nature your way to a longer life

How much would you pay for an additional 9 years of life?

10,000$? 100,000$? More? Is there a financial limit to how much 9 years are worth?

After all 9 years means 3285 days or 78840 hours or 4730400 minutes. There is no limit to the amount of money that you could potentially make. Time is the only non-renewable resource. You should trade money for time.

But what if it were cheap to live 9 years longer? You don’t need to spend millions on unproven high-tech pharmaceuticals and gadgets. You only need to make an uncommon decision and live by it.

Moving from the city to nature gives you from 5 to 10 years of extra life

It’s that simple. Move from city to the countryside. It can be anywhere you want as long as you are in nature, have a nice view, and it’s not in the middle of a city. It can be a remote cabin. It can be in a village. It can be near the mountains. It can be by the seaside. Or it can be close to neither. The point is to get out of the city and into nature.

How do you gain 10 years of life? It’s simple arithmetic. I calculated the impact in life years of several factors of city life. Add them…

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Victor Rotariu
Victor Rotariu

Written by Victor Rotariu

Polymath. Curious. Writing a book on how to create an ideal life for our Paleolithic mind and body

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