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Humans probably can't live longer than 150 years, new research finds:
Science is once again casting doubt on the idea that we could live to be nearly as old as the biblical Methuselah or Mel Brooks' famous 2,000-year-old man.
New research from Singapore-base biotech company Gero looks at how well the human body bounces back from disease, accidents or just about anything else that puts stress on its systems. This basic resilience declines as people age, with an 80-year-old requiring three times as long to recover from stresses as a 40-year-old on average.
[...] Extrapolate this decline further, and human body resilience is completely gone at some age between 120 and 150, according to new analysis performed by the researchers. In other words, at some point your body loses all ability to recover from pretty much any potential stressor. The study's conclusion that the body loses all ability to cope -- or at least to recover -- from stress before age 150 is line with the conclusions of similar studies, including one from last year that pegged the maximum possible human age at 138 years.
The full study [PDF] is published and available to the public in the open journal Nature Communications.
I think that quality of life is much more important than number of years. Would you like to live longer?
Journal References:
1.) Dmitriy I. Podolskiy, Andrei Avanesov, Alexander Tyshkovskiy, et al. The landscape of longevity across phylogeny [$], bioRxiv (DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.17.995993)
2.) Aleksandr Zenin, Yakov Tsepilov, Sodbo Sharapov, et al. Identification of 12 genetic loci associated with human healthspan [open], Communications Biology (DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0290-0)
3.) Timothy V. Pyrkov, Ilya S. Sokolov, Peter O. Fedichev. Deep longitudinal phenotyping of wearable sensor data reveals independent markers of longevity, stress, and resilience [$], medRxiv (DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.24.20248672)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Saturday May 29 2021, @05:10PM (4 children)
If the maximum possible age is around 138 years old that is still quite some time away from the current average that are usually in the late 70s or early to mid 80s. We are actually then currently dying in our middle age. So there is quite a range we have to push it out if we are then now currently dropping at about the half way mark.
When looking at those maximum age people the longest once on record have dropped around the 120 years mark. Current oldest one is closing in on 119 (Kane Tanaka). She has had cancers twice and seems to mostly get around by wheelchair and living in a nursing home. Apparently she spends her days drinking Coke and playing Othello. So perhaps it's not so much that you survive the longest but how you actually live. Still it could have been worse.
Sure I would like to become 150 (or 138) years old. But it sort of depends on the condition I am in. I want to get there if things are fine. I don't want to spend like 60ish extra years, from the current average, in agonizing pain. Then I might as well just drop early.
Also it seems to be super unfair as most of the really old humans are women.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday May 30 2021, @02:40AM (3 children)
My mom is 91 and can pass for 55. (No grey hair, either.) Her secret? Good genes, and replacement therapy for estrogen and more critically, thyroid.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Funny) by acid andy on Sunday May 30 2021, @01:22PM (2 children)
Is she by any chance related to William Shatner?
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Reziac on Sunday May 30 2021, @01:34PM (1 child)
LOL... nope, and she looks a lot better for her age. And it's all her own hair. ;)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday May 30 2021, @06:16PM
Two words. Mi. Aow! ;D
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.