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Centenarians tend to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from their sixties onwards.
Centenarian Clementina Ripplinger with researcher Heather Nelson. Researchers spoke to very elderly people about what brings them joy and how they plan for the future.
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What is life like at 100? Centenarians shared their joys and future hopes with a team of Saskatchewan researchers.
Is there a limit to human life expectancy?
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The oldest person in the world, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died in April 2022 at 119 years. The record of Jeanne Calment of France, who died at 122, has stood for almost 25 years. Will it be beaten?
Centenarian buddies in Sardinia.
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Many centenarians haven’t lived healthy lives, so are they genetically different?
How long could a human really live?
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Researchers think they’ve calculated the limit of human life span – but there’s more to it.
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Britain’s longest-reigning monarch has seen a big rise in life expectancy since her birth in 1926.