Posted on 06/28/2017 12:26:03 PM PDT by John W
Just how long can humans live?
Biologists at Montreal's McGill University have been studying the question and say if there's a limit, they haven't found it.
"We just don't know what the age limit might be," said Siegfried Hekimi. "In fact, by extending trend lines, we can show that maximum and average lifespans could continue to increase far into the foreseeable future."
A previous study looked at the lifespan of the longest-living individuals from the U.S., the U.K., France and Japan for each year since 1968 and concluded that the maximum human lifespan is approximately 115 years.
But Hekimi and colleague Bryan G. Hughes took issue with the methods used in that study and reanalyzed the data.
"We show that there is no plateau," Hekimi told CBC News.
The findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Hekimi said no one has demonstrated that the human body has an expiry date, or that internal mechanisms can be exhausted.
"Such biological processes exist, but it doesn't mean these biological processes function like a clock that goes ding ding ding," he said. "There is nothing to say they run out at 115."
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120 years MAX...
Can they keep the software going as long as the hardware?
Except God, of course.
Woodrow Wilson Smith has declined to comment.
Methuselah ...
Makes it kind of hard to explain how few people hit 200, doesn’t it!
Of course, if they would control for Democrat voters voting until 150+...
Wow. Newsflash: Life is 100% fatal.
Actually had somebody tell me Jared. I had to look it up.
He was 7 years shorter than Methuselah, IIRC. 962 vs. 969.
Again, IIRC. Haven’t looked at it in awhile.
No limit to how long people can live: so long as the don’t live in Chicsg, Atlant, Washinton dc, Boston or LosAngeles. “8^} lol
Talk to somebody in their 90’s. Hardware and software are both running on empty.
Well, there was Enoch and Elijah.....but well north of 99%!
Gen. 6:3 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
I thought there was an issue with the ends of the DNA strands getting shorter over time.
Sure there are limits. They’re called telomeres.
If you look at registered Democrats on the voter rolls, you may find 120 years is the floor to old age.
“No limit to how long people can live: so long as the don’t live in Chicsg, Atlant, Washinton dc, Boston or LosAngeles. “8^} lol”
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Boston? You are kidding.
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