most of us will never achieve
immortality through fame so maybe
there’s a potion or something we can
drink drink that potion and you’ll never
grow even one day older welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down five amazing
facts about the pursuit of longevity
when it comes to longevity
there is no short-term fix and a pill or
anything else number five the first
person to live to a thousand may already
be alive
I am thousands of years old I have an
immortal and
I did make a bargain with him down a
Faustian bargain might not actually be
necessary according to Aubrey de Grey a
biomedical gerontologist with a flair
for the dramatic
it is very controversial to say that I
am working on the world’s most important
problem but I really are his research
has identified seven specific types of
cellular damage that together result in
what we recognize as Aging he is
confident that by regularly repairing
that damage before it causes actual
disease we can escape the ill health of
old age indefinitely and that the first
person who will achieve this may already
be born
I got have an age today clean-living
number for the leading cause of
centenarians a lack of birth records
well sir I must say that you really
don’t look mm I take care of myself well
according to the Guinness Book of World
Records the oldest person ever lived to
be a hundred and twenty two years and
one hundred and sixty-four days old but
a handful of other people have come
forward claiming to be older than that
by decades those caring for madam Cal
Moore said she kept her sense of humor
until the end I’ve only ever had one
wrinkle she said and I’m sitting on it
an Ethiopian man died in 2015
claiming he was a hundred and
sixty-three years old a Romanian man may
or may not have lived to be 148 China
claimed they had the oldest living woman
what do these people all have in common
a lack of independently verifiable
records of their birth which is why
guinness has never recognized them I
might be confusing cause and correlation
here but I think that means that to live
to 150 all you have to do is lose your
birth certificate I think we’d all
believe it more if you had some way to
authenticate it you have a birth
certificate he didn’t have that then you
didn’t have well we didn’t have 2000
years ago we didn’t have if we didn’t
have nothing we didn’t have ballpoint
pens didn’t have our and even up to ink
darling number three ancient rulers
drank mercury for long life
when you have absolute power you want to
make it last forever various ancient
Chinese emperors sought advice from
alchemists whose recommendations
included drinking metals including
mercury he chose one more than one
emperor died as a result of these
so-called immortality treatments the
logic was something like metal lasts a
long time if I drink it I will last a
long time
by that logic the most effective way to
lose weight is to follow an all helium
diet and eating dog whistle should make
you Mariah Carey number two
Youngblood rejuvenates the old studies
have shown ways that blood from young
mites rejuvenates older mice and pointed
the way forward for similar research to
be done in humans they discovered that
supplied with the young blood the old
heart was rejuvenated and took on the
appearance and efficiency of the heart
of a young mouse data and humans is
scarce so far but there’s a large study
involving transfusions from young donors
being given to elderly Alzheimer’s
patients media outlets were quick to
sensationalize this dubbing it the
vampire effect but researchers insisted
that just drinking straight up blood is
not enough presumably they have wrinkly
arthritic vampire mice to prove it
number one long living cultures have
nine common traits so to make a tip age
100 you not only have to have had a very
good lifestyle you also have to have won
the genetic lottery blue zones are areas
where people have unusually long lives
researcher and author Dan Buettner has
identified five of them across the world
and found nine common lifestyle traits
that he says help people there live past
100 among them are eating a
semi-vegetarian diet and being part of a
faith-based community so to live 200 you
may have to give up bacon bombs and get
baptized
but luckily drinking one or two glasses
of alcohol per day is also recommended
so what did you think about these facts
you can all live forever or you can die
this second I don’t give a shit which
what age do you want to live to but only
I can live forever for more long-lasting
top 10s and short-lived top fives
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
immortality through fame so maybe
there’s a potion or something we can
drink drink that potion and you’ll never
grow even one day older welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down five amazing
facts about the pursuit of longevity
when it comes to longevity
there is no short-term fix and a pill or
anything else number five the first
person to live to a thousand may already
be alive
I am thousands of years old I have an
immortal and
I did make a bargain with him down a
Faustian bargain might not actually be
necessary according to Aubrey de Grey a
biomedical gerontologist with a flair
for the dramatic
it is very controversial to say that I
am working on the world’s most important
problem but I really are his research
has identified seven specific types of
cellular damage that together result in
what we recognize as Aging he is
confident that by regularly repairing
that damage before it causes actual
disease we can escape the ill health of
old age indefinitely and that the first
person who will achieve this may already
be born
I got have an age today clean-living
number for the leading cause of
centenarians a lack of birth records
well sir I must say that you really
don’t look mm I take care of myself well
according to the Guinness Book of World
Records the oldest person ever lived to
be a hundred and twenty two years and
one hundred and sixty-four days old but
a handful of other people have come
forward claiming to be older than that
by decades those caring for madam Cal
Moore said she kept her sense of humor
until the end I’ve only ever had one
wrinkle she said and I’m sitting on it
an Ethiopian man died in 2015
claiming he was a hundred and
sixty-three years old a Romanian man may
or may not have lived to be 148 China
claimed they had the oldest living woman
what do these people all have in common
a lack of independently verifiable
records of their birth which is why
guinness has never recognized them I
might be confusing cause and correlation
here but I think that means that to live
to 150 all you have to do is lose your
birth certificate I think we’d all
believe it more if you had some way to
authenticate it you have a birth
certificate he didn’t have that then you
didn’t have well we didn’t have 2000
years ago we didn’t have if we didn’t
have nothing we didn’t have ballpoint
pens didn’t have our and even up to ink
darling number three ancient rulers
drank mercury for long life
when you have absolute power you want to
make it last forever various ancient
Chinese emperors sought advice from
alchemists whose recommendations
included drinking metals including
mercury he chose one more than one
emperor died as a result of these
so-called immortality treatments the
logic was something like metal lasts a
long time if I drink it I will last a
long time
by that logic the most effective way to
lose weight is to follow an all helium
diet and eating dog whistle should make
you Mariah Carey number two
Youngblood rejuvenates the old studies
have shown ways that blood from young
mites rejuvenates older mice and pointed
the way forward for similar research to
be done in humans they discovered that
supplied with the young blood the old
heart was rejuvenated and took on the
appearance and efficiency of the heart
of a young mouse data and humans is
scarce so far but there’s a large study
involving transfusions from young donors
being given to elderly Alzheimer’s
patients media outlets were quick to
sensationalize this dubbing it the
vampire effect but researchers insisted
that just drinking straight up blood is
not enough presumably they have wrinkly
arthritic vampire mice to prove it
number one long living cultures have
nine common traits so to make a tip age
100 you not only have to have had a very
good lifestyle you also have to have won
the genetic lottery blue zones are areas
where people have unusually long lives
researcher and author Dan Buettner has
identified five of them across the world
and found nine common lifestyle traits
that he says help people there live past
100 among them are eating a
semi-vegetarian diet and being part of a
faith-based community so to live 200 you
may have to give up bacon bombs and get
baptized
but luckily drinking one or two glasses
of alcohol per day is also recommended
so what did you think about these facts
you can all live forever or you can die
this second I don’t give a shit which
what age do you want to live to but only
I can live forever for more long-lasting
top 10s and short-lived top fives
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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