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Alexander has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the person who has spent the longest amount of time living in an iron lung. [12] Alexander started a TikTok account in January 2024, on which he posted videos discussing his life. He had more than 330,000 followers at the time of his death.
Joe Middleton looks at the life of Paul Alexander, who spent 70 years in an iron lung before passing away at 78
The 100 species with longest life-spans recorded and verified [1] This is a list of the longest-living biological organisms: the individual(s) (or in some instances, clones) of a species with the longest natural maximum life spans. For a given species, such a designation may include:
Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about his life ...
Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said. He was 78 ...
Rats, mice, and hamsters experience maximum life-span extension from a diet that contains all of the nutrients but only 40–60% of the calories that the animals consume when they can eat as much as they want. Mean life span is increased 65% and maximum life span is increased 50%, when caloric restriction is begun just before puberty. [57]
The last man to live in an iron lung died in Dallas on Monday. Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than 70 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child in 1952.
English: Comparison of longevity among the 100 longest-living organisms registered in the AnAge Database of Animal Ageing and Longevity (downloadable at this link) belonging to The Human Ageing Genomic Resources (HAGR) collection of databases. Graph realized starting from a RAWGraphs generation