How long can humans live?

The only person to live 122 years was Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 in France. Come little down, and one more person had lived up to 119, and even down, seven had lived up to the age of 117. Ten people have lived until 116 years, and 27 had ever reached 115 years.

Now, if we keep decreasing the age until the average, the number of people who has lived that long keeps increasing. Human life expectancy as we know is on the rise. An average person born in developed countries during1960s was expected to live for 69 years, whereas someone born today can expect to live more than 80 years.

Now, the question is: how far can we go pushing the boundaries of our lifespan?

It turns out that, there is a limit on how many times our cells can divide to keep us look young and afresh. This limit, is known as the Hayflick limit. But, even though there is a limit to how many times our cells can divide, many of us don’t actually reach that limit.

Have a look on my video

https://youtu.be/39HliWSX2FA

Because, there are myriad other ways we can die, and only some of us really die as a result of our cells reaching the ends of their lifespan. While some of these premature deaths are just due to disease, and accidents, many other are from the outside forces such as the quality of air, water and food, quality of medical facilities, our personal lifestyle and the even personal choices that you make in our everyday life. Also the genes we inherit hold an enormous influence on our life span. If we inherit perfect genes, we can live far longer than average, but almost nobody has perfect genes.

Now, we know, we cannot change our genes, but if we can take care of our lifestyle choices and live in a clean and safer environment, supported by evolving medical technologies,   humans can really push the boundaries of the age limit. 

But, that’s not all, with more research into the field, who knows someday we’ll be able to increase the ability of our cells to multiply further, so we never grow old or at least increase our lifespan to double or even triple.  

In fact, scientists have already found other ways to increase life in animals, if the process works for humans, then it will be a new beginning.