How to Use health span in a Sentence

health span

noun
  • It's shown to increase health span and even lifespan.
    — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Those are the keys to increasing your health span, not just your life span.
    — Caroline Tell, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Many longevity experts swear by it as a way to extend health span and life span.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 3 Aug. 2023
  • These exercises are key to a long health span as well as lifespan.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • These diets can harm mental and heart health, which reduces a person's health span.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Biomarkers predict diseases that lead to poor aging and a shorter health span.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The 3 pillars of health span Cue health span, or the number of years one is able to live disease-free.
    — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 22 June 2023
  • But the study didn't just look at how long people lived, but how healthily, finding that coffee was linked with a longer health span too.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Here’s how to lengthen your health span Healthspan may be more integral to your well-being than lifespan.
    — Lindsey Leake, Fortune Well, 21 May 2024
  • The goal of the competition is to extend health span, the number of years people live healthy and free of disease.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Scientists are working to develop drugs that could extend dogs’ lifespans and health spans.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Stress Loneliness is a major influence on health span, Gori said.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Experts have estimated that the health span and life span gap is about a decade or more—meaning people live the last of their lives disabled and in pain.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The future of beauty innovation is here, bridging the gap between lifespan and health span.
    — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Here are the four barriers Gori sees to extending the American health span.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Her extreme health span and longevity, as well as her husband’s, do not appear to be related to genetic makeup.
    — Dr. Eric Topol, Time, 8 May 2025
  • Florida is asking them to choose between their patients and their own health spans, and a meaningful number are choosing their health spans.
    — Frances Mei Hardin, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • For the average American, Topol said, health span is about 63 to 65 years.
    — Marah Eakin, Wired News, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps most importantly, healthy lifestyle changes allow people to live longer in good health, improving their health spans.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 14 Nov. 2025
  • This shift from treatment to prevention not only improves health outcomes and reduces cost of care but also enhances health span and longevity.
    — Trisha Swift, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Scientists are trying to uncover the reasons men and women age differently in the hopes of extending life span and health span for both.
    — Mohana Ravindranath, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Researchers focus on the root causes of biological aging to extend skin cellular health span.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Preventing the Gap However, closing the health span/lifespan gap is not just about cutting-edge technologies.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The findings add to emerging evidence that vaccines could increase health span in multiple ways, such as by decreasing dementia and heart disease risk.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, the difference between lifespan and health span is roughly 12 years.
    — Helen Dennis, Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Hundreds of companies in longevity biotech are working to translate the discovery of drugs that extend health span in animals into human treatments.
    — Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Healthy behaviors become automatic and part of daily life, impacting not only obesity rates but also longevity and health span.
    — Dr. Marschall Runge, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The future of precision medicine using personalized data to suggest ways to extend health span is becoming more tangible.
    — Salvatore Viscomi, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This difference between lifespan and health span is greatest in the US compared to 183 countries surveyed.
    — Helen Dennis, Daily News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • That’s not just a matter of semantics; improving health span would have substantial economic and societal benefits.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025

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