September 4, 2017.
According to a study carried out by researchers at the Universities of Tilburg and Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, there is a threshold beyond which we will no longer be able to live. And this threshold does not decrease over the years.
There is an age limit for men and women
Of course, life expectancy increases significantly, but that does not mean that we can expect to die at 150. This is what emerges from a study carried out by a team of Dutch scientists. According to their work, human lifespan could not exceed 115.7 years for women and 114.1 years for men. To reach these results, the researchers consulted the medical data of more than 75,000 Dutch people.
Over the last thirty years, they have observed that the age of death of people who die centenarians does not increase with the years. ” On average we live longer, but the oldest among us have not gotten older in the last thirty years “, Tried to explain John Einmahl, who participated in the work. ” We are definitely dealing with a wall “.
We will not reach the 150 years
Clearly, life expectancy is increasing (the number of people who have reached the age of 95 in the Netherlands has tripled in 30 years), but the ceiling of 100 and a few years has not changed. This conclusion is not unlike that of a previous American study, which explained that we will no longer reach extreme ages as before. The population will age, but it will not wait for the 150 years, despite advances in medicine.
But what about Jeanne Calment, this Frenchwoman who died in 1997, at the age of 122 years and 164 days? According to the authors of this work, this woman is the exception that proves the rule, especially as she smoked cigarillos and drank a glass of port every day. Our national dean, Honorine Rondello, celebrated her 114th birthday last July. According to the results of this study, he only has a few months to live …
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