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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 JoeMerchant on Sunday May 30 2021, @01:11AM (3 children)
Don't worry, at 45 the parts are just starting to wear out. Tell us how you feel after another 30 years of steadily deteriorating sight, hearing, joints, physical stamina, mental acuity, etc. The curse of life is that just as you start to get the hang of it, your abilities start deteriorating, and they don't stop until you die.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 30 2021, @02:30AM
I'm not looking forward to it. One knee is already fucked after an accident a few years ago. The other knee will probably go eventually due to the extra strain. I tore the ligatures in one of my arms now several times and it's taking longer each time to heal, if it ever will again. My hearing and sight is starting to go but at least I can now claim I just didn't hear you and it will be true.
If I make it to 150 it will probably have to be like a head in a jar Futurama style.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday May 30 2021, @02:41AM (1 child)
I've got a head start on that. One hip got messed up around 16, and I have a number of persistent health problems. They don't make life any less worth living.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday May 30 2021, @11:21PM
Physical challenges don't seem to be nearly as depressing as lack of sensory input: eyes the ears even smell and taste and especially touch when those go that's when people really start going downhill fast.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end