How long will YOU live for? Find out by taking this 38-question quiz devised by longevity experts

It’s that morbid question we’re all desperate to know the answer to — when will we die?

But now a longevity expert claims to have developed a tool which could provide the answer…

Dr Paul Savage, who runs a health clinic in Chicago focused on helping patients live longer and has spend decades studying the ageing process, has created a 38-point quiz to gain a snapshot of a person’s health.

Answers are fed into an algorithm, which generates a ‘longevity score’ — a person’s life expectancy — based on their health habits, family history and social activity.

Scores below average should encourage people to take action to ‘boost their health and longevity’, Dr Savage said. 

Average life expectancy for men is 79 in the UK and 73 in the US, while women are expected to live until 83 in the UK and 79 in the US. 

Dr Savage, founder of MDLifespan Longevity Clinic, told MailOnline: ‘I designed the Longevity Score as a method of inspiring people to evaluate the impact of their environment, lifestyle, and the impact of their family history on their longevity.

‘As my grandfather says, “If you don’t look, then you will not see it, and if you don’t measure, then you cannot fix it”.’

Dr Savage, a former emergency unit medic who has spent 25 years sifting through the latest research on longevity, noted that there is a long list of studies focused on ageing but said none of these have been turned into a ‘practical tool to be used by the layperson’.

His quiz, which can be accessed by clicking here, is based on thousands of studies on the factors shown to influence ageing, such as blood pressure, weight and diet.

First, users input their sex, age, weight and height, as well as the size of their body frame and how much of the day they spend sitting.

Questions on diet include how many portions of fruit and vegetables a person eats and how long they fast for each day. The quiz also asks how often a person consumes olive oil.

Time-restricted eating has been found to benefit blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure. But scientists say long-term trials are needed to confirm these effects. 

Meanwhile, olive oil is a key component of the Mediterranean diet — considered the gold-standard for health.

Other multiple choice options cover exercise frequency, alcohol intake, smoking and drug use.

People are also asked how long they sleep for, whether they snore, how frequently they are tired and worried and how stress affects them.

Getting too little sleep has been linked to a range of conditions, obesity and poor mental health, while snoring is a sign of sleep apnoea, which is linked with poor heart health.

How often a person reads and interacts with others is also asked about, as well as whether they floss — both of which have been linked to dementia.

Routine readings including cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar are taking into account, along with family history of heart attacks, strokes, cancer and dementia.

It also asks whether people take a NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) supplement. This molecule occurs naturally in the body and is vital for converting the protein and fat in food into energy. 

However, levels decline with age and advocates claim supplements slow down the ageing process and boost energy — though there’s no concrete data to back this up.

The tool then provides an estimated life expectancy based on answers and directs people to book an appointment with the clinic if they want to improve their longevity score.

However, the longevity score calculated by the tool is only an estimate.

The questions are tailored to take into account factors that raise the risk of the top 30 killers, including heart disease, cancer and dementia.

However, it does not consider every preventable cause of death and cannot account for fatal accidents.

Dr Savage admitted that it is ‘difficult to determine’ the accuracy of the quiz but its purpose is to help people assess the risk factors impacting their life expectancy so they can consider how to mitigate those risks. 

‘I do want people to use this score so that they can take actions which will boost their health and their longevity,’ he said. 

‘Many, if not most, of the risk factors which people have to their health and longevity can be mitigated by early detection, targeted prevention and intervention.’ 

He added: ‘A good longevity score could be defined by any score over the expected lifespan of an individual. 

‘So, roughly, any score over 73 years is a good score for a man, and any score over 79 years is for a woman, because, well, you have beaten the odds.

‘Personally, my score is currently 86, which I am thrilled, as most men in my family die by 70, and only one uncle has lived to 82. I am out to break our family record. 

‘I have faith in medicine, research, and our increasing ability to detect disease sooner, intervene with more therapies than ever, and prevent my untimely demise.’

The longevity expert offers treatments in his clinic tailored to boosting life expectancy — from helping with weight loss to plasma exchange therapy, which the clinic claims removes ‘toxic’ substance from the body. 

While the treatment offered by Mr Savage only uses a patient’s own blood, a similar treatment was followed by billionaire biohacking guru Bryan Johnson.

The 45-year-old tech mogul, who spends $2million (£1.65million) a year on the quest for eternal youth, swapped blood with his teenage son in the hopes it would reduce his biological age

While results showed there was no benefit for the treatment, he said alternative methods of plasma exchange ‘hold promise’, he said.