How long did real people livedocumented centenarians?
Our list of centenarians deservedly tops the legendary personality Ancient China, the alleged creator of the world, who, according to legends, grew 3 meters per day and lived to be 18 thousand years old. His name was Pan Ku.
Methuselah himself lived 969 years.
Adam allegedly lived for 930 years.
The Illyrian Dandon lived for 500 years.
300 years Nestor, which he owes to Apollo.
lived 200 years Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. So far, data have been presented that are difficult to verify.
Hungarian Charten lived to be 185 years old
185 years old - a man named Kitaki from Iran
182 years - a certain Solis from Colombia.
180 years - Mr. Yorath, subject of Her Majesty the Queen of England.
His faithful wife Murphy Yorat lived 177 years.
168 years old - Shirali Muslimov from Russia.
167 years old - funny Pereira from Colombia.
159 - Pakistani Sayyaz Abdul Mabud.
The famous long-livers Thomas Parr from England lived 152 years and 9 months.
150 years - Mursi Suleiman Daoud.
139 - Kitako Kingamkono from Tanzania.
137 - Namkaso from Tahiti.
135 - Nefisa Abdalah from Egypt.
12 1 year - Mary Duckworth from the USA.
120 - José Lawrence Fsrreira from England.
112 years old - virgin Suzanne Ferreira from the USA.
105 years old was celebrated in 1983 by Mustafa Bukhamedien from Bukhara. In the same year, he first visited a doctor in order to obtain a certificate ... for the police that he could drive a car.
The Illyrian Dandon lived for 500 years.
Zoltan Petrazh died at the age of 186 in Hungary in 1724. Age over 120 years is usually recorded on the basis of a person's personal statement and the testimony of others and is not always confirmed by actual documentation.
History knows many examples of amazing longevity. Scottish fisherman Henry Jenkins (1501-1670) lived to 169 and died in Yorkshire. It is known from English judicial records that in 1665 he was a witness at a trial in a case 140 years old. One of his sons lived to be 109 years old, the other to 113. The Turkish woman Fatma Khanum lived to be 164 years old. Hungarian Janos Roven lived to be 172 years old, his wife to 164. They lived in marriage for 117 years, their youngest son was 116 years old. The Englishman Thomas Parr, a tenant farmer, lived 152 years and 9 months (1483-1635), was married twice (the first time at 80 years old), having entered into a second marriage at 120 years old, had a son who lived to be 123 years old. At the age of 105 he was subjected to church repentance for illegal cohabitation, in September 1635 he was invited to dinner with Charles I. The king decided to get acquainted with the English "wonder of the world", but this ruined the venerable old man. According to some, he could not stand the damp London weather, others are inclined to think that Thomas simply overate.
His death occurred from an accidental cause, and all organs were healthy according to the testimony of the famous English physician William Harvey, who performed the autopsy. In the protocol, Harvey noted that the body of the deceased was muscular, no abnormalities were found in the digestive organs, there were no stones in the kidneys and liver, and if the old man had remained on his usual diet, he could have lived for some more time. Thomas Parr is buried in Westminster Abbey, where the ashes rest. prominent people England. Thomas Parr survived 10 English kings and lived from the 15th to the 17th century.
The English postal clerk Robert Taylor, at the age of 133, received a portrait of Queen Victoria with the inscription: "Queen Victoria's gift to R. Taylor in memory of his deep and unheard of old age." This gift so excited the old man that he soon died.
One of the oldest people in our country was Yegor Koroev in Georgia, he lived for 157 years, participated in wars and was engaged in physical labor all his life. Azerbaijani collective farmer Mahmud Eyvazov lived to be 152 years old. His seniority amounted to 133 years. In 163, the first air travel in his life was made by Shirali Muslimov (1805-1973), and he lived only 169 years. For years, the Pomor K. G. Popov fished in the Sea of Okhotsk. Arzhgiri Khazitov and Tepse Abzieva lived in our country for 180 years. But the record of longevity is retained by the Englishman Thomas Karne, who, according to records in church books, lived 207 years old, who was born in 1588 and happily survived 12 kings, the oldest person in recent (1980-1985) was considered the Iranian Said Abu Taleb Mosawi, he is 190 years old. His wife is 105 years old (this is his 5th marriage). The Japanese monk allegedly lived for 250 years, and this is recorded in church books.
The most reliable is the case of the Dane Kristen Jacobsen Drakenberg - he died at the age of 146 years.
Of the modern ones, the most famous example is the Turk Zaro Aga (1778-1934), who, according to his own statements and some unofficial documents, lived to be 156 years old. It is difficult to establish his exact age, but comparing his age with the age of his children, one could assume that he really lived that long.
Thus, one of his sons died in 1918 at the age of 90, while Zaro Aga himself died 16 years later. Zaro Aga was born in the village, married 13 times, had 25 children and 34 grandchildren. He led a quiet life, smoked a little, drank soft drinks, ate a lot of bread, curdled milk, sweets and little meat. He was sanguine, cheerful, but his development was slightly below average. He died in hospital from a uremic coma as a result of prostate hypertrophy.
According to the latest data, the Irishwoman Katerina Plunkett, an old maid who lived to 111 years and 10 months, really reached maximum longevity.
Most recently, at the age of 120, the Portuguese shepherd Nunez Jose, who was considered one of the oldest people in Western Europe, died.
Manuela Peñarda from Bolivia was born in La Paz 153 years ago. At least that's what it says on the metrics. It is for this reason that Manuela is considered the "number one" long-liver on the planet. Recently, Bolivian television organized a program with her participation, a special commission wants to once again check the authenticity of the old woman's documents, certifying the "overcoming" of a century and a half.
An example is the oldest inhabitant of the planet, Jeanne Calment (France), who recently died at the age of 122 years of "natural death", according to doctors. She was born in 1875, led a quiet moderate life, did not overeat. At the age of 100, she rode a bicycle and kept a clear head until the end of her life. Her IQ at 120 was comparable to that of an older woman.
Mahmoud Varan died in Damascus in 1963 at the age of 163. At that time, he was considered the oldest inhabitant of Syria. It is known that the Kenyan Matayo Achungo was well known throughout Africa. He died in 1976 at the age of 132, he was mourned by dozens of children and 125 grandchildren. And the Iranian Mohamed Ayubu had 170 grandchildren, and in 1970 they claimed that he was the oldest person on Earth, because he was 180 years old.
The previous world champion in longevity, Japan's Shiketio Izumi, has died at 120 years and 237 days. AT literary sources the case is even more high duration life, such as the Azerbaijani Shirali Muslimov, who lived for almost 168 years (1805-1973). This man was a shepherd and worked all his life in the open air, in the mountainous village of Tikeband in the Lerik region.
In Guizhou Province, 147-year-old Gong Life, the oldest survivor in China and possibly the world, died of hepatitis. Gong lived all his life as a bachelor, never drank or smoked, ate rice and corn twice a day (Trud, 04/04/1993)
In 1999, it was reported that the oldest person on earth lives in Africa - a woman who is 146 years old.
In May 2000, it was announced that a woman who was 150 years old had died in the state of Arkansas (USA).
There are many more examples of rare longevity in the literature. The oldest inhabitant of the planet, today, is the Japanese Kamato Hongo.
In mid-September 2002, she celebrated her 115th birthday. Back in March 2002, the Guinness Book of Records listed a completely different name - American Maud Farris-Luz, who died in her native state of Michigan at the age of 122.
The official title of the oldest man on Earth again belongs to Japan, or rather its 113-year-old citizen - Yukichi Chuganzi. However, his superiority is contested by the Jordanian Fanhir Ziyad Al-Fawaz, whose relatives claim that he has been "knocked" for 125 years. To date, the documented highest age is 121, the age of Frenchwoman Jeannette Calment. It is possible that the name of Pelageya Zakurdaeva from Altai will be included in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest inhabitant of the planet. On June 6, 2002, she turned 116 years old. She lives in the city of Zarinsk, Altai Territory.
The list of published records of longevity can be continued indefinitely, but a rather funny phenomenon should be taken into account. Mature people, especially women, tend to underestimate their age, and the elderly - to exaggerate (old males often exaggerate their age). The venerable age is called such because it has a certain social weight in the eyes of others.
Currently, information and factual material is being collected, observations and research are being conducted on this issue. There are areas on earth that are most favorable for longevity, where people live much longer and remain in old age with more energy and vitality than in most developed countries. The most famous of these places are in the middle mountains. For example, the village of Vilcabamba in the Andes (Ecuador), the mountainous country of Hunza (Pakistan) with a population of about 40 thousand, located on the Karakoram Range in Kashmir on the border with China and Afghanistan. In the province of Hunza, people do not know many of the "diseases of civilization", they differ good health. With constant monitoring of them for 14 years, not a single case of illness was established, although Pakistanis living nearby often fell ill.
To the regions with the most high level longevity also applies to Transcaucasia (Azerbaijan - Nagorno-Karabakh), the North Caucasus (Abkhazia and South Ossetia), some regions of Siberia and Central Asia. However, there are centenarians in other geographical areas, for example, in Bashkortostan.
On this occasion, back in 1960, an article entitled "Long-livers of Bashkiria" was published in the republican newspaper "Soviet Bashkiria". There, in particular, it is written that on the initiative of the assistant of the Department of Social Hygiene and Health Organization of the Belarusian State Medical Institute N.S. Makhmutzyanova conducted a study of persons who have reached old age. The sources for the study were the lists of voters who participated in the elections to local bodies Soviet power February 22, 1953, represented by the district and city Soviets of Working People's Deputies in the 61st rural district and seven cities of republican subordination. 86,407 people over the age of 70 were registered, of which 1,951 people were aged 90 to 99 and 135 people were aged 100 and over. Unfortunately, the results of this study have not been fully published.
The newspaper "Soviet Bashkiria" until 1966 informed its readers about the centenarians of the republic. She covered everyday interests, lifestyle and the reasons for their longevity. The article by S. Erikeyeva “Centenarians of Meleuz” describes in detail life path the oldest resident of the republic, the mother of twelve children, 109-year-old Tabayeva Guleisha Kutluakhmetovna. In 1966, the newspaper also spoke in detail about the centenarians of the republic: Mukminova Asmabike - 106 years old and Yushkov Evdokim Nikiforovich - 103 years old, natives of the Baimaksky district.
In principle, there are people of respectable age everywhere where the habitat has been preserved in at least relative purity - water, earth and air, where there is a calm and measured lifestyle, moderation and simplicity in nutrition and the absence of bad habits.
Researchers of the essence of human longevity have put forward many hypotheses that converge on a set of common causes: features of a person’s personality, climatic conditions the area where he lives, the nature of his work and life, the characteristics of relationships, the style of communication with others, heredity.
Now many elderly people live in the Republic of Bashkortostan. According to the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Belarus, in 2001 there were 9,190 people aged 90 and over in the republic, including 475 people aged 100 and over. Indicators of age-sex groups of longevity and areas with higher and lower data on longevity in the republic are presented in the table.
Significant differences in the number of centenarians were found among men and women. The total number of male centenarians in 2001 in the Republic of Bashkortostan as a whole amounted to 1138 people, and among women - 8052 people. Higher rates of longevity among women than among men were observed both among the urban and rural populations in all districts without exception. A higher number of centenarians was found among the urban population. Of the 9190 centenarians of the republic, 4159 (45.261 live in rural areas; 5031 (54.74%) - in cities and urban-type settlements. Long-livers of men - 1138 (12.38%), of which 453 (39.8%) live in rural areas ), in cities and urban-type settlements - 685 (60.2%). %).
The rural districts of the republic - Ilishevsky, Miyakinsky, Kushnarenkovsky, Buraevsky, Aurgazinsky, Chekmagushevsky, Buzdyasky, Sharansky, Bakalinsky, Nurimanovsky and others - stand out with their high longevity indices. It is in these regions that almost all long-lived areas are located, and here is also a kind of "peak" of longevity - over 100 years old: in Ilishevsky - 6, Miyakinsky - 7, Kushnarenkovsky - 4, Buraevsky - 6, Aurgazinsky - 5, Chekmagushevsky - 7, Buzdyaksky - 4, Sharansky - 4, Bakalinsky - 4, Nurimanovsky - 1 person.
Persons aged 100 years and older in 2001 were registered in the republic 475 people, which accounted for only 5.17% of all long-term residents of the Republic of Bashkortostan, or 11.6 people per 100,000 people who have reached the age of 100. Of these, 81 people belong to the rural population and 394 to the urban population; by sex 93 men and 382 women.
Muhammed Eyvazov was 148 years old and in 1956 a postage stamp was issued in honor of this, Shirali Muslimov - 168 years old and by 1978, Majid Agayev - 143 years old and Afruz Gasanova - 135 years old. According to official data in the USSR in 1970-1980. about 30 thousand people over 100 years of age lived.
Among those who have long crossed the 80- and even 90-year-old boundaries and at this age remained world-class in their profession, one can cite the names of such centenarians - giants as: Hippocrates, Titian, Janacek, Plato, Sophocles, Confucius, Ho Chi Minh , Korzhik, Jahir, Shvabineky, Hussein J., Grus, Newton, Shaw, Cuba, Edison, Miro, Bezruch, Pavlov, Schweitzer, Kubin, Tolstoy, Verdi, Michelangelo, Chaplin, Qi Bai Shi, Voltaire, Goethe, Casals, Stravinsky , Rubinshtein, Kovarzhik, E. Kogout, V. Shtech
Some researchers believe that life expectancy supposedly increases by a year every 10,000 years. Over the past 100 thousand years, it has become a little more thanks to the development of thinking and speech, and most importantly, thanks to polygamy (Yaroslav Govorka, Road to Longevity, Moscow, 1990).
In 1972, Dr. Alex Comfort - a famous gerontologist, better known, however, as the author of the book "The Joys of Sex", at a meeting of the American Gerontological Society said: "I am sure that ways to slow down and reverse the aging process are about to be found." And a year later, he said: "If it were possible to mobilize the scientific and medical reserves of the United States of America alone, then old age would be done away with in just ten years."
It may seem that this is unjustified optimism. But here is one example of an assessment of the progress of medicine and related technical sciences over the past few decades, given by the French philosopher and physician Jean Bernard. According to Bernard, had the doctor fallen asleep in 1900 and woken up 30 years later, he, in all likelihood, could almost immediately return to the interrupted medical practice She has changed so little. But if he fell asleep in 1930 and woke up in 1960, he would no longer be able to understand anything and would be out of work. In three decades, medicine has made such a giant leap forward that a doctor of the beginning of the century would have been able to treat patients worse than most of today's first-year students. Suffice it to say that in 1930 there were no antibiotics to treat diseases such as syphilis, pneumonia, scarlet fever, and meningitis, to name just a few. And in less than two subsequent decades, the development of medical science and technology proceeded at an even faster pace. Particularly great progress has been made in the treatment of diseases associated with aging: hypertension, glaucoma, arthritis, cataracts and heart failure. In areas where there was no treatment at all a few years ago, successful methods of combating diseases have now become commonplace.
Life expectancy is clearly influenced by two factors: heredity and environment. It is not necessary to be born into a family of centenarians in order to live long yourself, but still it’s not bad. People whose ancestors were long-lived have lower mortality rates at any given age and are more likely to live to 80 and beyond. However, heredity is not everything. As Alex Comfort writes, human longevity is "inherited" in the sense that it is akin to a certain family tradition ... There is a definite relationship between the age to which parents lived and the likelihood of their children's life expectancy. “At the same time, this relationship is not as natural as, for example, in relation to growth.” According to Comfort's observations, the children of centenarians are less likely to live long than the children of lanky parents to be tall.
About 2000 diseases and defects are caused by heredity, including some forms of blindness and deafness, mental retardation, hemophilia and metabolic disorders. But such diseases as a cause of death are statistically insignificant. According to Galton, “If any serious diseases are inherited, they are all rare. Heredity usually predisposes to diseases, but by no means makes disease inevitable.
Parents and everything that they give us, we, as you know, do not choose. As for the second factor, the environment around us, we can control it to a certain extent. We can try to change our environment in such a way that the traits we inherited develop in a more favorable environment.
In 1973, the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Department of Health published a table that shows how long we could live if the main "killers" of mankind were finished. It is worth cracking down on cardiovascular diseases, and we will gain an average of 17.5 years of life. If in our country (USA) we could reduce the incidence of cancer by 80%, then another 2.5 years would be added to our life. If we manage to drastically reduce the number of deaths from accidents, homicides, suicides, cirrhosis of the liver, influenza and diabetes, we can add another 2.5 years to these figures. Having destroyed all the "eaters" of life, most of which we impose on ourselves with our ugly lifestyle or treatment of environment, we could extend the life of each person by an average of 22.5 years: men would live on average to 92.5, and women to 97.5 years. And this can be achieved to a large extent without the invention of any new drugs. , procedures or technical innovations in medicine. Most of these influences are wholly subordinate, being merely a function of man's daily habits, as a review of them will amply show.
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Human possibilities are endless. This also applies to people's ability to live very long lives. Therefore, some people in their lives manage not only to give birth to their children, to wait for grandchildren from them, but also to see great-grandchildren, and maybe great-great-grandchildren. However, there are not so many centenarians at all times. So who is the oldest person in the world today?
Such a person lives in Bolivia ( South Africa). His house with thatched roof and earth floor is located near the local lake Titicaca. The name of the oldest person in the world is Carmelo Flores Laura, whose age is 124 years. He can rightfully be considered the oldest, since he has documentary evidence of his age - the documents indicate that a man was born on July 16, 1890.
Flores Lauro shares the main secret of his longevity - he believes that all this is due to the fact that he walks a lot, works as much, and eats quite a bit. In addition, the oldest person in the world tries to eat as little noodles and rice as possible. The main menu of the elder includes barley, potatoes, beans (he grows all this with his own hands) and lamb. Once, as the long-liver from Bolivia says, he managed to catch a fox, and he tasted its meat. A man has never drunk alcohol in his life - even the taste of a "fiery" drink is unfamiliar to him. He drinks only the purest water, which flows from high mountain springs. Therefore, any serious illness bypassed the man.
For his 124 years, the long-liver has surprisingly good eyesight. However, he hears not so well (sometimes his hearing even fails), and his teeth have long fallen out. He can neither write nor read, he can only Spanish. The long-liver very confidently says that he has long passed over a hundred, but what is his exact age, he cannot say. During his life, Flores Laura raised three children, nursed 16 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren.
Among the people who claim to be the oldest in the world, and whose age can be documented, is also the Japanese long-liver Misao Okawa - today her age is 115 years. Before her, the Japanese centenarian was Jiroemon Kumura, who lived to be 116 years old. The French centenarian Jeanne Calment, who died at the age of 122, was also noted.
But still, the oldest of the entire history of mankind is the Chinese Li Ching-Yun, who died in 1933, when he was 256 years old. This is undoubtedly worthy of entering into the Book of Records. Pro early years There is very little information about the life of this centenarian, but it is known that he was born and lived in Sichuan (province of China).
The age of the elder was questioned by many, since this was not documented. In addition, this long-liver had a very cheerful appearance, and he could be given no more than 60 years. Li Ching-Yun himself believed that 1736 is considered the year of his birth. However, records found in 1930 showed that the year of his birth is 1677. Therefore, the Imperial Government of that time congratulated the centenarian on his anniversaries - 150 and 200 years.
He was married 24 times (he survived 23 of his wives), he managed to raise 180 heirs. He always strictly observed a diet, he ate rice and drank herbal teas. Herbs long-lived always collected himself. It is proper nutrition and peace of mind and served to ensure that he managed to live for many years.
But not everyone believes that Li Ching-Yun was really that old. The idea is admitted that a man could completely forget when he was still exactly born. Therefore, it is impossible to know for sure whether this story is true or fiction - one can only guess. However, it is known that before his death, he gathered his relatives and informed them that his life path was coming to an end. He urged those around him to always be calm, as this allows you to prolong life.
Another long-liver died on January 18, 2016 in Japan - 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide, born in Fukui PrefectureMarch 13, 1903. Previously, the man was hospitalized due to exacerbations of chronic heart disease.
Yasutaro Koide
After his death, the title of the oldest man in Japan went to 111-year-old Tokyo Masamitsu Yoshida.
The late Koide received the status of the oldest man in the world last summer, after his compatriot Sakari Momoi, who was also 112 years old, passed away.
Also last year, the oldest resident of Japan died, whose name was not disclosed at the request of relatives. She was 115 at the time of her death.
After that, the title of the oldest woman in Japan went to 115-year-old Nabi Tajima from Kagoshima Prefecture.
A question of duration human life has long been disturbing the minds of not only scientists, but also mere mortals. Experts are constantly on the lookout for an anti-aging remedy or a cure for immortality.
Not so long ago, I even wrote that by 2045, scientists plan to start resurrecting people from the dead and creating immortality technologies by transferring consciousness into a computer shell. However, on our planet there were and still are people whose age is much greater than the notorious 100 years, and who, at the same time, lead not so correct image life.
So, we present you a list of the ten most famous centenarians in history. Separately, we note that the life expectancy of these 10 people was officially confirmed.
Danish-American record holder for the number of years lived Christian Mortensen believed to be the oldest male on record. He was born on August 16, 1882, and died on April 25, 1998, having lived 115 years, 252 days.
Christian Mortensen
The man immigrated to America in 1903. In the New World, he worked as a tailor and milkman. As the secret of his longevity, he called "friends, good cigars, consumption a large number good water, no alcohol, an optimistic outlook on life and singing."
Maggie Pauline Barnes was born into slavery in the United States on March 6, 1882, and she died on January 19, 1998 at the age of 115 years and 319 days. Little is known about this woman, but we can say for sure that she not only withstood all the hardships and hardships, but also survived 11 of her 15 children.
Maggie Pauline Barnes
American Bessie Cooper was born on August 26, 1896 and died on December 4, 2012 at the age of 116. When asked about the secret of her longevity, the woman said: "I I don't stick my nose in other people's business" and added "And I don't eat junk food."
Bessie Cooper
Another long-liver from the USA Elizabeth Bolden was born on August 15, 1890 and lived until December 11, 2006 - 116 years 118 days. She was born into a family of freed slaves in Tennessee.
Elizabeth Bolden
Thane Ikai Born January 18, 1879 in a family of farmers in the Japanese city of Kansei. At the age of 20, she married, after which she gave birth to 4 children, whom she survived by the time of her death on July 12, 1995. The woman loved to embroideranimate and ceramics. Her daily diet consisted mainly of rice, which, most likely, in combination with the traditional Japanese diet, helped protect her from heart disease and cancer.
Thane Ikai
Maria Capovilla was born in Ecuador on September 14, 1889. Having lived to 116 years 347 days, she became the oldest South American woman in history and the longest living person in the southern hemisphere. The woman died on August 27, 2006, less than a month before her 117th birthday. Almost to the end of her days, Capovilla was healthy and energetic. She is I drank some alcohol but never smoked.
Maria Capovilla
French-Canadian centenarian from Quebec Mary Louise Mailer was 117 years 230 days old at the time of her death on April 16, 1998. By that time, one of her sons was living in the same nursing home as herself, and her daughter was 90 years old.
Mary Louise Mailer
Lucy Hanna lived to 117 years 248 days. She is considered the oldest African American woman and the third oldest person in history.
The woman was born in Alabama, USA on July 16, 1875. She married in 1901. In marriage, she had 8 children, six of whom she survived.
The second oldest person in history isSarah Knauss.She passed away at the age of 119 years 97 days. This happened on December 30, 1999.
Sarah Knauss
The oldest person who ever lived on Earth is considered to beJeanne Calment. Officiallyher record has yet to be broken. The woman lived 122 years 164 days.
She was born in French city Arles on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997. For my amazing life she witnessed the invention of the automobile, as well as cinema and airplanes. At the age of 13, she dated Vincent van Gogh.
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment, as she herself said, had "immunity from stress", was witty and talked about a new secret of longevity at every birthday.
It is known that the centenarian rode a bicycle and drank port wine until she was 100 years old. In addition, almost until her death, she smoked. best advice became the saying, "If you can't do anything about it, don't worry."
Unofficial centenarians
However, scientists still cannot give an exact answer about the age of the oldest man in the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the palm belongs to the Japanese Shigechio Izumi, who, as stated, he was born on June 29, 1865, and died on February 21, 1986. That is, the Japanese long-liver, according to sources, lived 120 years and 237 days.
Shigechio Izumi
All the listed centenarians were outdone by the Chinese Lee Ching-yun, whose ultra-long life has not been officially confirmed. It is believed that he was born in 1677 and died in 1933, that is, at the time of his death he was 256 years old!
The earthly "superstar" spent his whole long life in the mountains of Sichuan, doingcollecting, preparing and selling medicinal herbs. He also visited Tibet, Kang-Su, Shanxi, Manchuria and other countries to collect plants.As a young man he practiced martial arts, and his neighbors spoke of him as a vigorous and strong man.
According to some reports, the oldest man had 24 wives and 180 heirs, many of whom have already passed away. The Chinese always followed a strict diet, ate rice and wine, drank decoctions from his own collected herbs.
Lee Ching-yun
Examples of centenarians are found in the countries of the post-Soviet space and in Russia. But there are not very many such people, besides, the life expectancy has not been officially confirmed.
One such example is a citizen of Uzbekistan Tuti Yusupova, by nationality Karakalpak. The woman was born on July 1, 1880 and died on March 28, 2015 at the age of 134.
Tuti Yusupova
Citizen of Georgia Antisa Khvichava was born on July 8, 1880 in the village of Sachino. She died on September 30, 2012 at the age of 133.
Antisa Khvichava
Azerbaijani by nationality Sarhat Ibragimovna Rashidova was born in 1885 in the Dagestan village of Upper Zidyan. Having lived for 132 years, she died in January 2007.
Sarhat Ibragimovna Rashidova
Living in Altai, she was born in 1886 in the village of Novaya Barda. For some time she lived in Uzbekistan, but then at the age of 100 she returned to her homeland. The woman died in March 2005 from complications caused by the flu, having lived to be 119 years old.
Zakurdaeva (Lavkina) Pelageya Osipovna
Resident of Vladivostok Afanasy Ivanovich Tarasov died in 2003 at the age of 116.
Afanasy Ivanovich Tarasov
In Dagestan, the well-known "grandfather" Magomed Labazanov died at the age of 123 in the fall of 2012.
As for the living, recently there is a man in India named Mahashta Murasi, who turned 180 this year. The long-liver claims to be immortal.
According to the only document preserved by Murashi, it is known that he was born on June 1, 1835 (according to other sources - in January 1835), worked as a shoemaker. The man claims that he is so old that he has already outlived his great-great-granddaughter.
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Mahashta Murasi
For centuries, mankind has tried to unravel the mystery of longevity. After all, according to the Bible, people lived up to 900 years before the Flood. And Methuselah did live to be 969 years old.
However, until now, scientists do not know why this or that person becomes a super-long-liver. Some of these lucky people drink, smoke and indulge in “various bad excesses” all their lives, while others follow a strict diet and lead a healthy lifestyle. We also do not know the answer to this question. But we know how old is the oldest person in the world.
The oldest person on Earth now is a resident of Japan, Kane Tanaka. According to the latest data from the Guinness Book of Records website, this woman is the oldest inhabitant of the Earth. Her age is 116 years and 66 days.
The life of Kane Tanaka is a clear proof that at any age you should not give up. At the age of 103, she was diagnosed with an oncological disease (colon cancer), but the woman successfully overcame the disease and continues to enjoy life. She is sure that the secret of longevity lies in hope, family support, proper diet and sleep.
The previous longest-lived record holder, Nabi Tajima, lived 117 years and 260 days and passed away in 2018.
And the oldest male person in the world is the Japanese Masazo Nonaka. He was born on July 25, 1905 and in 2018 should celebrate his 113th birthday. In general, there are a lot of Japanese in the list of super-long-livers. Possibly a fish-rich diet.
On August 4, 1997, Jeanne Calment died in a nursing home in France. Of course, the Grim Reaper will come for all of us, but he was in no hurry to see Mrs. Kalman. She died at the age of 122 years and 164 days, setting the official record for human longevity.
Before her, the title of "the oldest person on the planet", according to the Guinness Book of Records, was held by the Japanese Shigechiyo Izumi, who was born on June 29, 1865 and died on February 21, 1986, at the age of 120 years and 237 days. It is interesting that both Kalman and Izumi did not deny themselves either drinking or smoking.
And unofficially, the oldest person on Earth was the Chinese Li Qingyun, presumably (since there are no documents confirming this) born in 1736 and died in 1933. Some sources even cite 1677 as the date of Qingyun's birth. That is, at the time of his death he was 256 years old.
For most of his life, this man was engaged in collecting medicinal herbs in the mountains of Sichuan, and comprehending the secret of longevity. When Lee was asked about the secret to his fantastically long life, he replied, "keep your heart quiet, sit like a turtle, walk awake like a dove, and sleep like a dog." He also did qigong exercises and drank herbal infusion, the recipe of which has been lost.
This is what a dozen verified centenarians of the Earth look like, both now alive and already left this world.
There are no men in the top 10 centenarians, because the oldest verified centenarian (Jiroemon Kimura) lived 116 years and 54 days. And the age of Chiyo Miyako is 116 years and 336 days.
According to the Bible, a person can theoretically live to the age of Methuselah - 969 years. According to Li Qingyun, one can live for over 250 years.
But aging expert at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Ian Wij, doubts we'll see centenarians like Jeanne Calment again. Over the past few decades, human life expectancy has increased. But now, according to Vij, we have reached the upper limit of human longevity and people will not cross the 115-year mark.
Scientists analyzed how many people different ages were alive in a particular year. They then compared the numbers from year to year to calculate how fast the population grew in each age range. The fastest growing segment of society is the elderly. For example, in France in the 1920s, the fastest growing group was 85-year-old women. And by the 1990s, the fastest growing group of French women was already 102 years old. If this trend continued, the fastest growing group today could very well be 110 year olds. Instead, growth has slowed and appears to have stalled.
Dr. Vij and his students looked at data from 40 countries and found the same general trend. Scientists thought the reason was that humans had finally reached the upper limit of their longevity.
With rare exceptions, such as Mrs. Kalman, people do not live to be 115 years old. This "wall" is also evident to the longest-lived people on Earth. “When you look at the second super centenarian and then the third, fourth and fifth, the trend is always the same,” said Dr. Vij. On the researchers' chart, Mrs. Kalman is an anomaly. Vij's team has calculated how likely it is that someone will be able to survive it given the current trends. Verdict: Virtually none.
Mba Goto died in April 2017 after a long illness at the age of 146.
The term allotted to each person on earth is individual, and it is impossible to predict in advance how many years are ahead, and when making plans, seriously count on their implementation. Man is mortal, and, as the classic correctly noted, it is bad that he is suddenly mortal. However, almost everyone expects a long life, and hopes to meet an interesting old age. From time immemorial, people have been looking for ways to prolong their lives, to find a medicine that guarantees longevity, and, if possible, immortality.
Are there any patterns that allow us to argue that certain factors contribute to a long lifespan? Are there any magical potions that will give a dozen or two extra years of life? People who live 90 years or more are called centenarians. Each additional year lived on earth attracts more and more attention to them. The centennial anniversary becomes a real event, and children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, gathering on such a wonderful occasion, secretly cherish the hope that longevity is a hereditary factor and they themselves will also have a chance to blow out a hundred candles on a birthday cake. So what does the number of years lived depend on?
What is the maximum human lifespan?
The person who lived the longest life is the Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment. She managed to celebrate her 122nd birthday before she passed away. Moreover, such a long lifespan is documented and beyond doubt by scientists. An amazing thing, but if we take into account official data, then among the ten people who have lived the longest life, nine are women, and only one is a man! Coincidence? Or is there some terrible secret here? Women often face difficult trials, but, nevertheless, obligations to children and parents are more tempered. nervous system, the habit of relying on themselves make women less vulnerable. From time immemorial, men have been fighting, working, striving to do everything, and in this haste they are losing an unequal battle with life and death. Women, as continuers of the clan, live for themselves, for men.
Fewer and fewer representatives of the generation that won the Great Patriotic War. People who have suffered the most terrible hardships, hunger, illness, hardship and deprivation, went through fire and water, furnaces concentration camps– and survived, and many of them lived long lives. worked genetic code did not allow the surviving people to die from disease and hunger after the war, and the people rose almost from the ashes. And how many centenarians, about whom there is no official data, grandparents who live out their lives in remote villages, who restored documents after the war from memory and do not know how old they really are.
If we take into account unverified and unconfirmed data, then each country can boast of its centenarians and try to compete with the Guinness Book of Records. The stories about the Chinese Li-Chgung-yan, who lived for about three hundred years, despite the complete absence of any documentary evidence, excite the minds and hearts and make them look for a way to repeat his life path. In honor of the 169th birthday of the Colombian Javier Pereira, a postage stamp was issued. A similar honor was awarded to the long-liver of the USSR Mukhamed Eyvazov, who celebrated his 150th birthday.
Despite the fact that France holds the record for the number of people with the longest life expectancy, followed by the United Kingdom and Germany in the top three, the oldest person lives in a small village on the shores of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. Carmelo Flores Laura crossed the line at 123 years old. He considers hard work to be the secret of his longevity, and a small amount of food eaten.
What affects life expectancy?
Food that prolongs life:
Except proper nutrition, a full-fledged healthy sleep, physical activity interspersed with rest and peace of mind are important. But if everything is so simple, why don't people live for two hundred years? Diseases, stresses, bad ecology, negative emotions destroy bodies and souls. Numerous man-made disasters, accidents and wars claim the lives of thousands of people. Are we able to change our lives ourselves, or is each of us just a guide on the road of life? Be that as it may, we can make our life more correct, saturated with positive deeds and thoughts, otherwise, why live a hundred years if there is no good memory left after you? Dare, search, try, and who knows, maybe you will give the world a medicine for longevity?
