A study has revealed the maximum age that a person can really live, following research carried out by scientists.
Researchers from Singapore biotech company Gero and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, studied human resilience and the body’s ability to recover from damage in 2022.
Using AI to aid their research, they examined medical data from hundreds of thousands of volunteers to estimate the maximum life expectancy of a human being.
They judged a number of factors to reach the number in addition to age, including the impacts of the disease, lifestyle factors and the human body’s ability to recover.
They discovered that the body’s recovery powers run out between 120 and 150 years.
A study reveals the maximum age that a person can really live, following research by scientists
Drug development could allow the body’s aging process to slow down enough that someone could live to be 200 years old, but that doesn’t mean 200 will become the norm anytime soon.
Other studies on the science of aging suggest that the record for the world’s oldest person will likely be broken again before the start of the next millennium.
The Office for National Statistics states that life expectancy at birth in the UK between 2020 and 2022 was 78.6 years for men and 82.6 years for women.
This surpasses the US, where it stands at around 74.8 years and 80.2 years for men and women, respectively.
The oldest person who has ever lived is Jeanne Calment, who turned 122 when she died in 1997.
María Branyas Morera, the oldest person in the world, celebrates her 117th birthday in March
In August, the world’s oldest verified living person at the time, María Branyas Morera, died at the age of 117.
Branyas, who survived two pandemics, the 1918 Spanish flu and Covid, and two world wars, died peacefully in his sleep, according to his family.
He previously attributed his longevity to “order, calm” and “staying away from toxic people.”
Its impressive life expectancy of 117 years far exceeds even the highest expected life expectancy in the UK.