{"id":80111,"date":"2018-06-28T18:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T01:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/a-new-study-is-questioning-the-limits-of-human-lifespan"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:00:55","slug":"a-new-study-is-questioning-the-limits-of-human-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/a-new-study-is-questioning-the-limits-of-human-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"A New Study Is Questioning The Limits of Human Lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-study-is-questioning-the-limits-of-human-lifespan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeanne Louise Calment lived for 122 years and 164 days, the oldest verified age of any person, ever. Her interviews revealed a portrait of the centenarian in high spirits: \u201cI\u2019ve only ever had one wrinkle, and I\u2019m sitting on it,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/1997\/08\/05\/champion-of-longevity-ends-her-reign-at-122\/d4b82e0f-1941-4927-b000-2ee926aa67b7\/?utm_term=.a026a9985450\">told reporters<\/a> when she turned 110.<\/p>\n<p>Calment died in 1997 in Arles, France, where she spent much of her impressively long life. No one else, according to accurate records, has lived beyond 120 years.<\/p>\n<p>Whether there\u2019s a limit to the human life span is an age-old question. An actuary named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/your-probability-of-dying-doubles-every-eight-years-180948228\/\">Benjamin Gompertz<\/a> proposed in 1825 that mortality rates accelerate exponentially as we grow older.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-study-questions-limits-of-human-lifespan\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-study-questions-limits-of-human-lifespan<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanne Louise Calment lived for 122 years and 164 days, the oldest verified age of any person, ever. Her interviews revealed a portrait of the centenarian in high spirits: \u201cI\u2019ve only ever had one wrinkle, and I\u2019m sitting on it,\u201d she told reporters when she turned 110. Calment died in 1997 in Arles, France, where [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80111","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80203,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80111\/revisions\/80203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}