{"id":162138,"date":"2023-04-13T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/humans-will-break-the-longevity-record-and-live-past-122-study-says"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:22:58","slug":"humans-will-break-the-longevity-record-and-live-past-122-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/humans-will-break-the-longevity-record-and-live-past-122-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Humans Will Break the Longevity Record and Live Past 122, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-will-break-the-longevity-record-and-live-past-122-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That plateau is called \u201cmortality compression\u201d\u2014where the age of death remains relatively fixed. It\u2019s been a consistent phenomenon for folks born up until the 1900s. But according to the study, \u201cmortality postponement\u201d\u2014where the maximum age at death is on the rise\u2014seems to be more common in those born between 1910 and 1950. This means the oldest people born in that timeframe have a solid chance at stretching their years beyond 120.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs these cohorts attain advanced ages in coming decades, longevity records may increase significantly,\u201d McCarthy says in the news release. \u201cOur results confirm prior work suggesting that if there is a maximum limit to the human lifespan, we are not yet approaching it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That plateau is called \u201cmortality compression\u201d\u2014where the age of death remains relatively fixed. It\u2019s been a consistent phenomenon for folks born up until the 1900s. But according to the study, \u201cmortality postponement\u201d\u2014where the maximum age at death is on the rise\u2014seems to be more common in those born between 1910 and 1950. This means the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}