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Longevity claims are unsubstantiated cases of asserted human longevity. Those asserting lifespans of 110 years or more are referred to as supercentenarians . Many have either no official verification or are backed only by partial evidence.
Longevity myths are traditions about long-lived people (generally supercentenarians), either as individuals or groups of people, and practices that have been believed to confer longevity, but which current scientific evidence does not support, nor the reasons for the claims.
Longevity myths include generic traditions about supercentenarian human longevity, as well as incompletely validated specific longevity claims, such as those lacking birth or death dates or arising from within a generic tradition. Traditions also include "diets, drugs, alchemy, physical practices, and certainly also mental states" that have ...
Longevity claims are claims to extreme longevity (usually 110 or older) that either cannot be verified, or for which only inconclusive evidence is available, but for which a slight possibility exists that they could be true or partially true (for example, if someone claimed to be 118 but turned out to be 114).
Aging brings surprising benefits, according to Stanford longevity expert Laura Carstensen, Ph.D. It’s time to debunk aging myths, rethink our routines, and reinvent the future.
Fiction, legend, and folklore have proposed or claimed life spans in the past or future vastly longer than those verified by modern standards, and longevity narratives and unverified longevity claims frequently speak of their existence in the present. A life annuity is a form of longevity insurance.
Though previous studies have made other longevity claims—anything from running 40 minutes a day to embracing new tech to feeling younger than your chronological age to mopping floors—this ...
As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians. [1] [needs update] As of January 12, 2025, it lists the oldest living American as Naomi Whitehead (born in Georgia on September 26, 1910, and now residing in Greenville, Pennsylvania), aged 114 years, 108 days. [2]