The goal of many peoples lives is to live past the age of 100 years. It is quite the goal and many people have achieved it. Some people however seem to contradict what we think is the maximum age, and push the limits even further.
In 1997 a person by the name of Jeanne Calment , a French woman that lived to be 122 years old. It was thought before her that the maximum age of any person could only be 110 years. That changed with Clament and it is being looked into further. Can the human lifespan be extended farther than ever before?
A new study done on the mortality rates from old age from several different countries says no. Data was collected from the Human Mortality Data base said that the mortality rates from age had increase from 70 since 1990 and has steadily increase. This would make sense with current medical practices, but that it has stopped to increase in recent years.
Up until around 1980 humans have had increased life expectancy. After 1980 though the age seamed to hold steady and had very little change and suggested that there may be a natural limit to how long a person can live.
Researchers looked deeper into the age of humans specifically at narrowed down to between 1968 and 2015. It was also that they looked primarily at the United States, United Kingdom, France and Japan which were the places with the most number of people that lived beyond 110 years old. With the data, they found that the max life span had plateaued, and actually slightly decreased since the time of Calment.
Many researchers still think that the life of a human can still be extended with medical science but it would most likely have a natural limit. Tests done on mice have shown that age can be extended by restricting and controlling their caloric intake, and by manipulating their genes. It is still to be tested if this would work with humans or not.
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www.reuters.com/article/us-science-aging-idUSKCN1252FH
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/10/125-years-scientists-say-maximum-age-for-humans-has-been-reached.html