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What is the oldest age a person can reach?
These researchers have an answer
Who decided that up to 120 this is a sufficient blessing for birthdays?
Researchers have found in a new study the maximum age that humans can reach and it turns out we have a lot more to strive for
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Sunday, 30 May 2021, 06:42
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Up to 120 is that enough?
Birthday cake gif (Photo: Giphy)
We usually greet people on birthdays with the words "up to 120", but is this really the maximum age a person can reach?
If we exclude all external factors from the equation, such as smoking, poor nutrition or environmental pollution, and nature can do its thing, what age can we theoretically reach?
Researchers from Singapore believe they have the answer.
In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers formulated a clever strategy using blood tests that they claim measure the absolute age a human body can reach.
According to their free measure, the dynamic organism status indicator (DOSI), they believe that the human body has a maximum lifespan of 150 years.
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To this end, the authors combined a number of age-related variables and aging pathways into a single index that allowed them to create maximum and simple quantitative life expectancy.
Aging includes progressive decline in function and makes the body vulnerable to outbreaks of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease.
Two main processes known to be associated with the aging process and diseases that characterize it are telomere shortening - protective regions located at both ends of each chromosome (chromosomes contain the genetic material in the cell nucleus), and the accumulation of dysfunctional old cells in the body called senescent cells.
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Still, one of the best metrics for a general health test is a Complete Blood Count (CBC).
Delving into a test that can indicate a variety of disorders while analyzing the number of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets of the patient, a blood count can be of great value for testing for diseases.
Two particularly older people.
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By monitoring the blood count data in addition to the aging trajectory observed through the patients' medical records, the researchers found that changes in the blood count could be used to create an overall indicator of aging that they called DOSI. This indicator represents a measurement of physical resilience, which was significantly correlated with the prevalence of common health conditions and age, suggesting that it is a strong marker for the maturation of the human body. This measure even predicted the prevalence of future age-related diseases, although no early signs of any disease outbreak were observed at that time.
To take advantage of their indicator to try and find out the maximum lifespan, the researchers looked to the future of their research subjects. They found that gradual loss of function indicates that humans reach their full age potential at ages 120-150, which is consistent with previous studies.
The results of their research suggest that even with the most advanced treatments available to us in the foreseeable and invisible future, humans will not pass this age without solving the underlying issue of aging.
Loss of resilience in the body appears to be a greater driving force of mortality than specific diseases, and researchers state that work to develop the aging model is necessary for life-prolonging treatments, rather than focusing on the diseases themselves.
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