There’s no single secret to a long life, though longevity expert after longevity expert has shared that eating well , staying active , and socialising are all pretty great places to start.

But a recent paper has suggested that people who live to 100 or older may have two things in common.

The researchers, who tracked the health of “all individuals born in Sweden between 1920 and 1922” (roughly 270,000 people) for up to 30 years starting from age 70, found that centenarians appeared to have two disease-fighting factors in common.

Interestingly, it didn’t just seem to be the case that people who lived a long time avoided illness altogether.

What do 100+ year olds have in common?

They seemed to get diseases later and have fewer of them (including heart and brain disease).

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