I remember seeing a standup show, possibly David Baddiel who might have used that, Quinsie stood out!
And I’m not even going to search for fistula 
Fun fact - I had a quinsie many years ago, they introduced me to a lovely long syringe which extracted rather more brown liquid than I’d expected.
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That’s what most of the estimates come up with, there’s quite a lot of conjecture as you only have age at death for some groups (rich city dwellers mostly) but it’s possible that rich / city were bad for life expectancy so it might be better.
Even to get an (mean) average life expectancy in 30’s though, you need a lot of folk living way beyond 50 unless child mortality is low - which we know it wasn’t, although again exact numbers is hard to know without records.
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Not claiming anything beyond amateur interest, but this guy summarises various data sources and reckons that a 30 year old male in the medieval period could expect to live to age 52 on average. Backed up by some good looking data.
There’s some really fascinating stuff in there. So many factors to consider especially sanitation and general living conditions. Must make it really difficult to say with confidence which improvements in healthspan can be attributed to diet.
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Theres some really interesting stuff about height and diet in parts 3 and 4.
Skeletal remains show average male height in medieval England was 5’7-5’8 which is 2 inches taller than average height in the 17th and 18th century. Theory than increasing urbanisation led to a worse diet and malnutrition. But that the mainly grain based diet of medieval folk probably did not.
But because so many people died from endemic diseases just really difficult to figure out if their diet was better or worse I guess
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Would any illness that you have suffered so far in your life have killed you if you lived in medieval times? I had an abscess in my neck when I was 10. Pretty simple to operate on, but good chance it would have killed me a couple of hundred years ago
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I like “Planets” as a cause of death (used for sudden heart attacks, aneurisms etc) caused by a misalignment of the planets 
Tissick doesn’t quite have the same ring as “Rising of the Lights” but they seem to mean the same thing?
Same with liver grown and consumption, perhaps?
Chrisomes (death at one month old) is huge.
Bloody Flux (dysentery) also right up there.
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Having a good old chuckle here 
. Kill’d by several accidents has a very slapstick theme to it, but +1 for Piles, must’ve been the worst piles ever.
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Not personally, but one of our boys had his appendix removed. Apparently appendicitis used to have a mortality of around 50% in pre-antibiotic, pre-anaesthetic times. One of my grandad’s brothers died of appendicitis in his 30s, have a newspaper cutting somewhere.
Bleeding, Teeth, Fever and maybe Murthered - the police didn’t exist back then did they?
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1 fatal illness for me so far too, plus another time I’ve been ill and on antibiotics. 7 lives left.
Given rising antibiotic resistance, that may not be a joke for much longer
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I had pancreatitis and was apparently ’ less than 10 days away’ according to the surgeon. I can’t remember the name of teh reading they do but high is 1,000 and I was 9,xxx.
It didn’t tickle!
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My famous infected finger probably would have ended badly without antibiotics. Certainly amputation and probably death from sepsis.
I had hepatitis when I was 3 and ill for a a fair few months. I don’t remember any of it. Surely that would have seen me off? No idea which variety it was.
This body builder Greg is absolutely hilarious!!! Especially his high-pitched shrieking.
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Changing the title now, really?
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That was funny, but he did higlight the issues with Spector’s points.
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He highlighted something but I’m not sure it was an issue with Spector’s points.
Ugh.
His first point is the same idiocy, if you can’t count the calories in the pizza it is a worthless paradigm, counting more or less pizza is not CICO.
You can’t count them, so pointless.
Not going to listen to his book sales pitch - Nothings changed here, move along.