Professor John Einmahl, one of the leading scientists behind the study. © The Brighter Side of News (CREDIT: Creative Commons)
Scientists discover the maximum age a human being can attain
Story by Joseph Shavit
In a groundbreaking discovery, Dutch researchers believe they’ve uncovered the elusive “ceiling” of the human lifespan. As modern life expectancy continues to rise due to advances in nutrition, improved living conditions, and progressive medical care, there’s been heightened interest in understanding just how old humans can potentially grow.
The new study offers a startling perspective.
Utilizing a comprehensive dataset that tracked the exact age at death for approximately 75,000 Dutch individuals, expert statisticians from Tilburg and Erasmus universities in Rotterdam have posited a maximum age limit for women at an astonishing 115.7 years.
The male counterpart, interestingly, nudges slightly below at 114.1 years. This invaluable data stretches over a remarkable three decades, providing a solid foundation for the researchers’ claims.
Professor John Einmahl, one of the leading scientists behind the study, shared some insight into the findings. “On average, people live longer, but the very oldest among us have not gotten older over the last thirty years,” he remarked.
Related video: Life lessons from 100-year-old Americans who didn’t expect to live so long, Ein Mahl’s observations underscore a fascinating paradox. He elucidated, “There is also certainly some kind of a wall here. Of course, the average life expectancy has increased.”
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These findings further highlight that the number of individuals in The Netherlands celebrating their 95th birthday has almost tripled in recent times. “Nevertheless, the maximum ceiling itself hasn’t changed,” Einmahl emphatically noted.
For clarity, it’s essential to differentiate between ‘lifespan’ and ‘life expectancy’. The former relates to the duration of life for an individual, while the latter represents the average expected life duration for individuals within a specific age group. Life expectancy typically serves as a metric indicating societal wellbeing.
This recent Dutch exploration resonates with findings from US-based researchers last year. While they too identified a similar age ceiling, they posited that those exceptionally aged weren’t living quite as long as their predecessors.
Jeanne Calment, the French supercentenarian, defied all odds by living to the remarkable age of 122. © The Brighter Side of News (CREDIT: Creative Commons)
However, Einmahl and his team challenge this notion. Employing a unique statistical approach known as the “Extreme Value Theory“, they concluded that the maximum lifespan has exhibited almost negligible fluctuations.
For those unfamiliar, the Extreme Value Theory is a sophisticated statistical methodology primarily utilized to interpret data and address questions related to extreme events – think lifespans, natural disasters, and other outliers.
Still, like every rule, there are exceptions. Einmahl cites the case of Jeanne Calment, the French supercentenarian, who defied all odds by living to the remarkable age of 122 years and 164 days. To date, she remains the oldest verified woman.
Extreme value theory is used to model the risk of extreme, rare events, such as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. © The Brighter Side of News (CREDIT: Jan Kozak Collection)
As the scientific community awaits further validation, Einmahl announced that their pioneering findings are enroute for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. He anticipates its publication “within the next month or so”.
As we look to the future, studies such as these are more than mere statistics. They prompt profound questions about the human condition, the nature of our existence, and the interplay of biology and environment. The “ceiling” might be set, but the conversation about human potential is limitless.
Scientists have discovered the maximum age a human can live to!!!
Chromosome 2 artificially fused in the ancient past!!!
A human cell can divide roughly 50 times before it dies out. It’s called the Hayflick limit, and it’s become a real headache for anti-aging science. As long as the limit holds, it suggests a maximum human lifespan of 120 years
He has a PHD in Biology and does give that process some credit, but with peer review in the state it’s in progress is painfully slow. That matches the information I received in college in biology classes.
Cells can only divide so many times, and there is no way to change that mechanism unless we start messing with cellular DNA, and we all know how well genetically engineered things have worked thus far.
Fairly well, I mean we’ve been using cold resistant potatoes for decades. Hell, if you count breeding as genetic engineering we’ve been eating genetically engineered grass since the stone age.
Once grown to an adult a lot of that dividing is due to damage triggering a healing response. This includes UV radiation, organ damage, or even a simple cut. Depending on how much of any of these occur for someone it can shorten or lengthen your potential life span. I wonder if this life span prediction is for an average amount of damage that may occur in someone’s life.
You can also expand telomeres using hyperbaric treatment.
Just about everything I was told in college turned out to be wrong or obsolete. Undergraduate universities are obsolete.
Thanks for the nice explanation. I apologize that my autism is forcing me to respond to this. I am VERY happy you wrote as you did. The Hayflick limit is treated as accepted fact, but as we all know, fact is only loosely applicable in this context. Scientifically, it’s a theory at best. Invitro appears to substantiate it, but we cannot prove it. For the moment, it seems more likely it’s just a fairly reliable guess.
For the rest of this, we’ll make the assumption that Hayflick is accurate since it seems to make the math work. Why I’m nitpicking is that you didn’t say “approximately 120 years” rather you said “120 years”.
It’s a pretty important qualifier.
I believe the Hayflick limit will disappear pretty quickly in modern science. Unlike in 1961, we should be able better understand telomerase and possibly replicate its effects on non-cancerous cells.
Alternatively, simply knowing it’s possible should allow us to synthesize an alternative to improve reliability of replicating telomeres. Limits like this are probably only the tip of the iceberg though. We would also need to accelerate cellular reproduction and even filter malignant or flawed cells.
One guy in the Middle Ages became famous for being 152 years old!?!?
Though I don’t really see the advantage. What’s the need for more years?
Maybe someone will figure out how to turn it off.
Astragalus root extract may help in telomere repair and re-lengthening.
Another instance where scientists have “discovered” the truth of what God stated in the Bible thousands of years ago: “So the LORD said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.’” Genesis 6:3.
That ancient book called The Old Testament states that the life of man shall be 120 years.
Except weren’t the first few “generations” of biblical figures exceedingly long lived? Wasn’t Noah supposedly a few (several?) a hundred years old? Maybe an earlier segment of the supposedly derived from Adam and Eve population was the long lived variety.
So many contradictions and inconsistencies in the “good book” that it is hard to keep track. But there was some supposed “generation” that lived longer than 120 years, wasn’t there? I remember that being the “explanation” for how the “math” is supposed to work out…
Yes, the generations before the flood lived several hundreds of years. Methuselah lived to 969, Adam 930, Jared 962, etc. After the flood life expectancies started to decline due to the environmental changes caused by the flood.
The lifespans of humans changed after the flood not due to “environmental changes caused by the flood,” but due to genetic changes caused by God. God altered the genes responsible for the durability of telomeres and telomerase caps on human chromosomes. He caused them to become less robust, weaker, and shorter. As a result, cells do not replicate properly for as long as they did before the flood.
When cells do not replicate properly, they produce inferior copies, and the inferiority of such continues to worsen as those inferior copies replicate and produce even worse copies. The result is that the human experiences cellular degeneration at a more rapid rate than before the flood.
That cellular degeneration is what is colloquially referred to as “aging” and “getting older.” It is a result of tweaking the DNA genes responsible for telomeres and telomerase caps, so that humans age faster and do not live as long.
Importantly, scientists are working out how to genetically alter DNA genes in ways that improve telomeres and telomerase caps. If successful, the result of such could be humans living much longer and even for several hundreds of years, as before the flood.
However, God will not allow such to be brought to fruition or used in the world because of the disgraceful state of humanity and the violence, immorality, perversity, and evil that abounds in the world. People cannot even live righteously for 120 years, and virtually no decent person wants to extend the lifespans of criminals, perverts, and those who indulge in and practice evil. The 120 years God mentions in this verse specifically references the time it takes Noah to build the Ark.
It has nothing to do with mankind’s lifespan after the flood.
Although the Bible clearly states that Adam lived 930 years, and his son Seth 912 years.
God reduced the human lifespan a few generations after Adam and Seth. Specifically, God reduced the human lifespan for people who lived after Noah and the flood. Noah lived several generations after Adam and Seth. God decided to reduce human lifespans because people were so evil and practiced evil (the specific things occurring were rape, abduction, theft, and murder, and these were very common). Because of the abundant evil being practiced by humanity, God shortened the human lifespan. It was good that God did so: just think how worse all of humanity would be if murderers, rapists, and other criminals lived several hundred years.
Jeanne Calment was a devout Christian all of her life.
God graced her with living longer than 120 years as a reward for her faith and as proof that humans can live much longer, to inspire others to be obedient to God. Again, she was a devout Christian all of her life and usually prayed every morning and read the Bible some every day. She is the only person in modern history millennia who has had a verified life of over 120 years. That she was a devout Christian is basically God saying that the only people who will live beyond the 120-year limit set for humanity will be Christians.
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And since the Bible states the Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years “to the very day.” Saul reigned as king of Israel for 42 years. The death of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the Second Book of Kings used Ptolemy’s history of Babylonian kings, combined with Greek historical events of known dates, to pinpoint the death of Nebuchadnezzar in 562 B.C.
Adding together the generations of Old Testament begetting and the reigns of kings, it can be surmised that 3,442 years passed between the creation and Nebuchadnezzar’s death making the estimate for the Earth’s creation: 4,004 B.C. Or in the opinion of one widely accepted bible mythology interpreter: 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.
The genealogy in the Bible omits several generations from Adam to Jesus. It cites only the most important figures. There were others. Human life on earth began over 500,000 years ago. Anyone in the Christian, Jewish, or any other community suggesting the earth and humans were made in the last roughly 6,000 years is mistaken and merely asserting such because they do not know or understand biblical history or ancient Hebrew accurately. The “days” referenced in the creation story are not literal days (especially since the sun and solar system, which establish the 24 hour day as we know it, were not formed until the third “day”).
Rather, the Hebrew word “yom” is used there and translated as “day,” and such means an undefined period, a period of time, some segment of time (such as an epoch). It can be used in reference to a 24-hour day, and also used in reference to a 1-hour soccer game, or a 2-billion year period.
When one reads the biblical creation story knowing this, it is clear that the earth and all life being created in six days does not refer to literal 24 hour days, but to undefined periods of creation which involved forming the universe and stars in the first 3 days/periods, then forming the solar system, and then giving rise to life on earth during the last 3 days/periods.
There are many creation mythologies going back to beginnings of what has become known as conscious thought. Most all built one upon the other with refinements to address the present societal requirements necessary for subjugation of the many by the few as for as long as more than a couple family groups gathered together creating a society. All those governing lores are likely based on kernels of events that occurred, and with some literary license, made for good parables.
OMG, I’ve got another 50 years of arthritis.
I’ve often wondered what changed and how men could live to be hundreds of years old before the flood. Something physically changed in the world. I find it very strange that the change occurred at the time of the flood.
There are things known as telomeres and telomerase caps on chromosomes in each human chromosome. Such are responsible for what humans perceive as “aging” and “getting older.” In essence, they effectuate cellular replication, but in replicating cells they make the copies of lower and lower quality over time, so that people age and die usually within 120 years.
However, genetically tweaking human DNA in the right way can result in better and stronger telomeres and telomerase caps, and the result of such is that humans will live much longer because their cells are replicating perfectly or with better quality over time. When humans were first created, God made them with strong and very good telomeres and telomerase caps, so that such would result in perpetual perfect cellular replication and infinite life.
After Adam and Eve sinned, God changed their DNA so their telomeres and telomerase caps were weakened and such resulted in Adam and Eve and a few generations of their descendants only living for usually less than 1,000 years. During Noah’s time, God decided to further alter telomeres and telomerase caps so humans would typically not live beyond 120 years due to their sinfulness and wickedness.
In recent decades of genetic science, scientists have begun experimenting on how to tweak human DNA to get it back to how it was before God altered such, so that humans can live much longer again. The technology and ability to do this already exists, but for sociological, ethical, and other reasons such is not brought to market because the world would be much worse than it already is if all the corrupt and evil-doing people could live for hundreds or thousands of years.
It is not that everybody is committing sins every day, it is that some people commit very serious sins (murder, rape, robbery, etc.) and they have no problem committing such multiple times, and if they are allowed to live very long lifespans than it would result in them committing more and more crimes. Imagine a person who lives only 70-120 years getting a 50-year sentence for murder. That is roughly half of his life.
But a person who lives for 1,000 years getting the same 50-year sentence is punished for only 1/20 of his life. He could murder 10 other people, get the same 50-year sentence for each, and be released by the time he is 600 years old, then do more crime. It is not good to allow people to live for hundreds or thousands of years when they have no problem committing severe sins that are very harmful to others.
Read the whole Bible and you will find it explained. I cannot remember the exact passage numbers, but it is addressed and explained. Read the Bible there are no “inconsistencies” when the entire Bible is read.
Yes but , this was for us that came AFTER THE FLOOD.
Noah was before and The Lord acknowledged him and counted Noah as worthy.
The first paragraph is no longer true! Human lifespan, at least in America, is DEcreasing! And it’s due entirely to our food system and the toxins our government ALLOWS to be put in our food, water and environment generally.
FDA is not on the list. But it would be nice if the FDA started doing its job better.
The list includes:
1) Department of Education. It too has failed us. He wants to get rid of it.
The rest of these he wants to modify in various ways:
2) Department of Veterans Affairs
3) Internal Revenue Service
4) Department of Health and Human Services
5) State Department
6) Environmental Protection Agency
7) Department of Justice
8) Department of the Interior.
Special note: the federal government owns 28% of US lands. It should hardly own any. Federal parks in states should be owned and operated by the states if they so choose. The federal government should only own land under federal bases and buildings. The rest should be public land.
As far as decimating the departments, yes, Trump wants to trim the pork. A family member of mine works in procurement and another works in fraud and waste. The one in procurement told me stories like “One guy came into the office each day and read the newspaper for 2 hours.”. There are employees that get lousy reviews, but the government still cannot get rid of them.
If people think that the government is not filled with hundreds of thousands of people who mostly just slide at work, then they are naïve. There is deadwood in all industries, but the federal government has a higher percentage than most which can use accountability.
In a highly competitive market companies are unlikely to do anything that will impact their bottom line. They are short sighted, but business is often based on dollars.
I think this all depends on where you live.
Clean air, good unprocessed food, and exercise would lead to a longer life. We mostly live in cities with polluted air and eat fast food. This study was done in the Netherlands, and I would like to know how these people lived.
Even if a method to extend human life by two to three times its current length our governments would never allow this to happen. As it is they currently want a reduction in the human population, not a 300% increase. They state this reason as being because of a lack of resources which is bunk and there are billions of acres upon which it can be grown.
The largest factors would be water and shelter.
Not to mention that only the wealthiest among us would get any such treatment and just because you can live past 115 years doesn’t mean it’s going to be enjoyable. I’m 65 and my body is already rapidly declining and I certainly don’t want to live another 50 years if that continues now. If they could discover how to reverse the aging process that would be an altogether different matter.
Anyway, back to what you were saying. You’re completely right about the consequences of wealth inequality, but the solution to that is to develop cheap treatments and reduce inequality, not ban treatments altogether. You’re also right about the need to improve the human “healthspan”, not just the lifespan. Negligible Senescence is definitely the goal.
The best determinant of an age ceiling in the USA currently is your income level and ability to purchase good health care and nutrition. If you are lower income your average life expectancy in the USA has been dropping for some time as the average life expectancy for higher income earners steadily rises to the 90’s and into 100+.
100 verified oldest women
The list includes supercentenarians validated by organisations specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG),[5][7][8] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.
| Rank | Name | Birth date | Death date | Age | Place of death or residence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeanne Calment[9] | 21 February 1875 | 4 August 1997 | 122 years, 164 days[b] | France |
| 2 | Kane Tanaka[7] | 2 January 1903 | 19 April 2022[10] | 119 years, 107 days | Japan |
| 3 | Sarah Knauss[11] | 24 September 1880 | 30 December 1999 | 119 years, 97 days | United States |
| 4 | Lucile Randon[12] | 11 February 1904 | 17 January 2023[13] | 118 years, 340 days | France |
| 5 | Nabi Tajima[7] | 4 August 1900 | 21 April 2018 | 117 years, 260 days | Japan |
| 6 | Marie-Louise Meilleur[14] | 29 August 1880 | 16 April 1998 | 117 years, 230 days | Canada |
| 7 | Violet Brown[7] | 10 March 1900 | 15 September 2017 | 117 years, 189 days | Jamaica |
| 8 | Maria Branyas[15] | 4 March 1907 | 19 August 2024[16] | 117 years, 168 days | Spain[c] |
| 9 | Emma Morano[7][17] | 29 November 1899 | 15 April 2017 | 117 years, 137 days | Italy |
| 10 | Chiyo Miyako[7][18] | 2 May 1901 | 22 July 2018[19] | 117 years, 81 days | Japan |
| 11 | Delphia Welford[20] | 9 September 1875 | 14 November 1992 | 117 years, 66 days | United States |
| 12 | Misao Okawa[7] | 5 March 1898 | 1 April 2015 | 117 years, 27 days | Japan |
100 verified oldest men
The list includes supercentenarians validated by an organisation specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG),[5][7][8] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.
Deceased Living
| Rank | Name | Birth date | Death date | Age | Place of death or residence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jiroemon Kimura | 19 April 1897 | 12 June 2013 | 116 years, 54 days | Japan |
| 2 | Christian Mortensen | 16 August 1882 | 25 April 1998 | 115 years, 252 days | United States[a] |
| 3 | Emiliano Mercado del Toro | 21 August 1891 | 24 January 2007 | 115 years, 156 days | Puerto Rico |
| 4 | Juan Vicente Pérez[15] | 27 May 1909 | 2 April 2024[81] | 114 years, 311 days | Venezuela |
| 5 | Horacio Celi Mendoza [69] | 3 January 1897 | 25 September 2011 | 114 years, 265 days | Peru |
| 6 | Walter Breuning | 21 September 1896 | 14 April 2011 | 114 years, 205 days | United States |
| 7 | Yukichi Chuganji | 23 March 1889 | 28 September 2003 | 114 years, 189 days | Japan |
| 8 | Tomás Pinales Figuereo [82] | 31 March 1906 | 24 September 2020 | 114 years, 177 days | Dominican Republic |
| 9 | Joan Riudavets | 15 December 1889 | 5 March 2004 | 114 years, 81 days | Spain |
| 10 | Fred Harold Hale | 1 December 1890 | 19 November 2004 | 113 years, 354 days | United States |
| 11 | Israel Kristal[7] | 15 September 1903 | 11 August 2017 | 113 years, 330 days | Israel[b] |
| 12 | Efraín Antonio Ríos García [15] | 4 April 1910 | 11 January 2024[83] | 113 years, 282 days | Colombia |
Sadly, it is believed that Jeanne Calment actually died in 1939 from pneumonia and complicated influenza and her daughter assumed her identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes. Since it was the middle of the war and much greater concerns were front & center this was never thoroughly investigated. Though an adjuster for a company paying her had suspicions, their investigations were hindered by the fact she had achieved “celebrity” status by that time.
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Living long is not all that you may think, everything, and everyone passes you by. I am not pleased with how you Humans are managing this planet, but it is interesting seeing how you scurry around like everything you do is important. Well it isn’t. Well in a little over four of your years everything will be changing, and no it has nothing to do with the creature that you Americans elected for your leader.
Groundbreaking discovery?
Leonard Hayflick “discovered the limit of human cell division and estimated the limit of human lifespan to be 120 years. He published this finding back in 1961. It wasn’t new information then. The ancient book of Genesis reports a limit of 120 years as well. It’s been known for thousands of years and “scientific” research repeatedly confirms it.
No groundbreaking discovery here. read a little about the Hayflick limit.
It’s the average maximum number from research measuring telomeres 💀
Nothing new. The Bible says 120 years- as does genetics-as per James Rollins.
The genetics angle states humans can no longer replicate their DNA after 120 years, but perhaps the rare person like Jeanne Calment could cost a couple extra years. They’ve done it in mice already.
Mice aren’t people and people aren’t mice, but the road from mice to people is a lot shorter than the road from worms to people (which is what they increased the longevity of before they managed it with mice).
How is the max 115 when we’ve had people live 120+?
I know it’s extremely rare to live to 120, but the “max” would and should be higher than that considering it’s happened multiple times. “Maximum age limit for women at an astonishing 115.7 years” has been surpassed a number of times, so… yeah.
Well people didn’t get birth certificates, and the first real registries didn’t start until the 1900s. All these extra old people never have proof, they were born in 1800 it’s just say say, probably exaggerated and incorrect. It is also just a handful of people around the world out of the billions walking this planet.
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The Sumerian King List, also known as the Chronicle of the One Monarchy, is a pivotal ancient literary document that meticulously catalogs the kings of various Sumerian city-states, the durations of their reigns, and the succession of power among these urban centers. Composed and refined during the late third and early second millennium BC, the SKL was primarily designed to legitimize the authority of different rulers by presenting a structured lineage of kingship.
This document not only provides insights into the political dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia but also reflects the intertwining of mythological and historical narratives in early human civilizations. The Sumerian King List remains a fascinating and complex document that offers valuable insights into the political, religious, and cultural dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia.
These kings in the past lived for thousands of years. If true, what did they know we don’t know? Very interesting reading. People were living to be 900 in the Bible, so this study isn’t that accurate. Just more clueless “scientists” trying to get their name in the papers. Providing there are no external causes of death, getting run over, stabbed in the back, X’s nagging you to death, poor diet, cancer, you get the picture.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful* in its time.+ He has even put eternity in their heart; yet mankind will never find out the work that the true God has made from start to finish. ******* How long can man live? Forever! Not in this system but coming so very soon in the New System of things! Imagine, living forever in a paradise earth, just as God had already planned!
Our thoughts and actions should be such that we have that chance of surviving the Great Tribulation and Armageddon so that we can live as God had originally proposed, FOREVER! Revelation 7:9-17 After this I saw, and look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues,* standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. 10 And they keep shouting with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation we owe to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.” 11 All the angels were standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell facedown before the throne and worshipped God, 12 saying: “Amen! Let the praise and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen.” 13 In response one of the elders said to me: “These who are dressed in the white robes, who are they and where did they come from?” 14 So right away I said to him: “My lord, you are the one who knows.” And he said to me: “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 That is why they are before the throne of God, and they are rendering him sacred service day and night in his temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread his tent over them. 16 They will hunger no more nor thirst anymore, neither will the sun beat down on them nor any scorching heat, 17 because the Lamb, who is in the midst* of the throne, will shepherd them and will guide them to springs* of waters of life. And God will wipe out every tear from their eyes.”
I don’t want to live to such an old age.
Living in the rat race with financial woes, no thank you.
This is science not including ALL the information. Science CANNOT determine that accurately. Just like they can’t get space things right. To be safe, take 1/4 of what science says, then believe 1/4 of that…
People with a lot of money would pay plenty to find out how a person that is 120 years old can still run a mile.
Billionaires have money but not time.
Billions would be spent to find out how to buy a little more time. At 76 I have 44 years to go before I collect my billions of dollars. If you are going to heaven, your lifespan increases to infinity… You can keep your old earthly bodies. Who in their right mind would want to live to be 120?
Who wants to live forever?
I’m hoping that’s a reference to YouTube Music from the highlander soundtrack… If so, BRAVO!Americans will never come near that ceiling with our healthcare system as it is.
Every atom, every cell in your body is replaced every seven years.
But by being a copy of me, I’m still who I am.
Modern Stem Cell Therapy is going to change these numbers. Then why did Jeanne Calment live to 122 years old. – Search the bigger question is why is my loaf of bread lasting for months and not molding?..Aliens..we are not alone
I just love these people they call scientists. Just who determines who a scientist is anyway? Snoring….
In the Middle Ages in England there was a man who lived to be 156 years old. – Search
The bible says the general age limit is 120. But God initially blessed people with longer life spans even after imposing this limit. Who lived past 120 after God said that. I know Moses didn’t have many signs of aging despite being over 80, but I don’t recall him ever making it past 120. So Can a human egg be fertilized without a male donor?
It’s because men only have 1 X chromosome while women have a spare copy in case the first one is damaged.
“So the LORD said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.’” Genesis 6:3.
As of now, As of now, the oldest living woman is Tomiko Itooka from Japan, who is 116 years old. She was born on May 23, 1908, and has been recognized as the oldest living person by the Gerontology Research Group. The oldest living man is João Marinho Neto from Brazil, who is 112 years old. I bet the oldest people in each culture spend the least amount of time with physicians.
As we look to the future, studies such as these are more than mere statistics. They prompt profound questions about the human condition, the nature of our existence, and the interplay of biology and environment. The “ceiling” might be set, but the co – Search
Wise rabbis opine that Methuselah was the saddest patriarch of the Torah. – SearchFor all the time he lived, and his only accomplishment was longevity.
If Adam and Eve had not sinned, how old would they be? – Search
The Bible tells you all you need to know on this
an old lost groundbreaking discovery … it is appointed unto men to die once… be it 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 114.1 or 115.7 or … are you ready?
Life expectancy is rising at least in the United States: U.S. Life Expectancy (1950-2025)
According to Social Security it could be 150- 300 years. Depends on your party affiliation! 🙈🙊🙉🐵
It’s meaningless for 99.99% of people. We should aim for a meaningful and interesting life, not worrying too much about the length. Once people reach retirement age, they should really just live in the present.
AGAIN News flash: That ancient book called The Old Testament states that the life of man shall be 120 years.
As Modern science is getting closer to the truth.
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Anneke G.J. Adams is a remarkable Belgian-American author, motivational speaker, and health coach who has survived cancer not just once—but seven times. Her journey spans over two decades of battling various forms of cancer, including Stage-3 breast cancer and Stage-2 melanoma.
Despite enduring immense physical and emotional pain, Anneke transformed her experience into a mission to uplift others. She founded the nonprofit How to Cancer 101, which offers support groups, live storytelling events, and resources for patients, survivors, and caregivers,
Anneke credits her positive mindset, daily meditation, and refusal to dwell on “why” something happened as key to her resilience. She’s known for saying that her sixth diagnosis felt like a spiritual awakening—a moment when she realized her true calling was to help others. 
Anneke Adams was driven by a powerful blend of purpose, positivity, and spiritual awakening. After her sixth cancer diagnosis, she described feeling as though she had finally discovered her calling—to help others navigate pain, illness, and loss.
Positive mindset She refused to ask “why me?” and instead focused on “what’s next?” Her father joked that her stubbornness was her secret weapon—and she embraced it.
Creative expression Writing her book How to Cancer 101 was therapeutic. It allowed her to channel pain into purpose and offer hope to others navigating life’s darkest moments.
Spiritual awakening Her sixth diagnosis sparked what she called a “spiritual awakening,” helping her realize her true calling: to guide others through adversity with compassion and courage
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Following a simple meal structure Anneke’s meals often focus on whole, unprocessed foods. A typical day might look like:
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Heart health
Diabetes prevention & management
Weight management
Cancer risk reduction
Gut health & digestion
Longevity & overall wellness
What makes this book stand out:
Be Your Own Advocate Stephanie emphasizes the importance of speaking up for yourself—whether it’s with doctors, during treatment decisions, or when navigating emotional challenges. She encourages readers to trust their instincts and ask questions.
Hope and Resilience Above all, Stolba’s journey is a testament to the power of hope. She shares how even in the darkest moments, small acts of self-care and connection helped her move forward.
Self-Advocacy as a Cornerstone One of her strongest messages is to be your own best advocate. That means asking questions, seeking second opinions, and not being afraid to challenge conventional wisdom if it doesn’t feel right for you.
Holistic and Integrative Practices While the book doesn’t prescribe a specific regimen, Stolba’s tone suggests openness to holistic methods—such as nutrition, emotional wellness, and spiritual support—as complements to traditional treatment. She believes in honoring the whole person: mind, body, and spirit.
Creating a Healing Journal Inspired by Stolba’s reflections, a person could:
Finding Joy in Creativity Even small acts of self-expression can be healing:
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Lifestyle & Wellness
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Reduced Risk of Recurrence
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Quite a few U.S. Presidents were Freemasons—15 in total, with some additional honorary or disputed cases. Here’s a rundown of the most notable ones:
Confirmed Freemason Presidents
Honorary or Disputed Cases
Founding Fathers & Revolutionary Ideals
Controversy & Decline
Looking Ahead
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Health Risks
Scientific Criticism 
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Reflections in His Writing:
Stylistic Shifts Inspired by His Father’s Illness:
Lifestyle & Physical Activity
Environmental & Social Awareness
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Potential Anticancer Effects
Anticancer Potential
Emerging Technologies
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Social Connection
Practical Coping