WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

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I pointed that out maybe in this very thread xp but then NV got all smartass about 2001 being the millennial year

vacuum head tree disease (imago), Friday, 6 March 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link

I still say it was 2000.

pplains, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link

I didn't turn 1 until a year after I was born, but I was definitely alive and kicking the 365 days before then.

pplains, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link

sleeping a lot and eating a lot of sushi sounds like a good life

he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link

It is. Trust me.

DavidLeeRoth, Friday, 6 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link

she probably has access to much better sushi than i do, being japanese and all

he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link

personally I would rather enjoy some sake as well and live half a century lesser than her, but each to their own.

xelab, Friday, 6 March 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link

She doesn't look a day over 116

StanM, Friday, 6 March 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link

by contrast, Jeralean Talley, the world's third oldest person, looks about 80:

http://i.imgur.com/6sLs7cS.jpg

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 6 March 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link

it does seem like a lot of the "world's oldest people" are african-american women. i wonder why that is.

he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 6 March 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link

113-year-old people who have figured out how to live:

http://i.imgur.com/nECTnLb.jpg

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 6 March 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link

it does seem like a lot of the "world's oldest people" are african-american women. i wonder why that is.

the mortality rate for African-Americans past the age of 80 actually increases more slowly than the mortality rate for white Americans in the same age range, and black people actually have a lower mortality rate than white people at extreme old ages (110+). there's no clear reason why, but this is an interesting read.

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 6 March 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link

"actually"

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 6 March 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

RIP Misao Okawa :(

her successor is presumably 116-year-old African-American woman Gertrude Weaver, whose exact birthdate is hotly contested (it could be either April or July 1898).

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 04:58 (nine years ago) link

Eat and sleep. Got it, oldest person.

I can't wait to bump this thread when I'm the oldest person.

Jeff, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 11:01 (nine years ago) link

I think you might have to. Wait, that is.

Tim, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link

Birth registration in the United States was not compulsory until 1933.

So Americans have 30 more years of this "paperwork? what paperwork?" b.s. to go through every time.

pplains, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link

New oldest person: http://time.com/3768338/worlds-oldest-person-gertrude-weaver-misao-okawa/

Secret for this oldest person, kindness. wtf stupid.

Jeff, Thursday, 2 April 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link

Her granddaughter is 79.

pplains, Monday, 6 April 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link

media attention can be dangerous when you're that old. she died of pneumonia, so it's possible that she caught something from a reporter or some other visitor last week. but at least she had a little bit of time to appreciate her position.

Hopefully the media won't be so intrusive in Jeralean Talley's case, although she seems to be in much better shape:

http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/wayne-county/inksters-jeralean-talley-is-now-the-oldest-verified-person-in-the-world

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link

The two oldest people in the world during the past week have both been African American women - one living in rural Arkansas and the other in metro Detroit.

These ladies are taking "Get Tough or Die" to an incredible extreme.

pplains, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

Venture Capitalist Promises http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhedgecock/2015/04/21/venture-capitalist-promises-1m-to-first-person-to-reach-123rd-birthday/M To First Person To Reach 123rd Birthday

this is mainly of interest to fraudsters: shady '140-year-old' goatherds will be climbing down from the Caucasus by the hundreds to claim their prize money, whereas it's doubtful that any actual (super)centenarians will be moved to break the world record because they're holding out for a cash prize that they'll be too old to properly enjoy. of the thousands of people who have reached the age of 110, only one has ever made it past 120, so survival at that age is most likely a matter of genetics rather than lifestyle or 'motivation'. there's a good chance that nobody will reach age 123 within that Moldovan billionaire's lifetime, which means he can raise awareness about lifespan extension without having to worry about paying out the prize money. good on him, I guess.

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 24 May 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link

in other relevant news, the world's oldest person turned 116 today. unsurprisingly, she doesn't cite 'living in Inkster, Michigan' as her secret to a long life.

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 24 May 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link

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opa panzram style (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 May 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link

well that was short-lived

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 24 May 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link

it's almost like being the world's oldest person is some kind of death sentence

écorché (S-), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link

You know, for like a second maybe, they

were also the world's youngest person.

pplains, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 05:01 (nine years ago) link

I'll be telling that joke all the time in 2093.

pplains, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

the 19th century is soon to depart the living human world

for some reason I dread that day; it is terribly irrational

imago, Saturday, 20 June 2015 01:45 (nine years ago) link

I feel like I'll lose a lot of my interest in these records once the last 1800er dies, even though 'last World War I veteran' and 'last person born before Kitty Hawk' are arguably more meaningful milestones than last surviving person of the century (and it's not like either of the two oldest women have any memories at all of that era)

the new world's oldest person is 115-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, who has had an interesting life:

Susannah Mushatt was born on July 6, 1899 in Lowndes County, Alabama. Her parents were sharecroppers who farmed the same land as her grandparents (one an ex-slave). As a young woman, she worked in the fields, and was determined to escape that hard existence. On March 4, 1922, she graduated from the Calhoun Boarding High School and the graduation roster recognized her for studying 'Negro Music in France'. After graduation, she wanted to become a teacher and was accepted to Tuskegee Institute's Teacher's Program. Her parents couldn't afford tuition, so in 1923, she moved to New York during the early stages of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1928, she married Henry Jones. She divorced him five years later, saying she 'didn't know what became of him,' and she had no children.

she and Emma Morano (born in Italy in 1899) are the last two 1800ers standing. Susannah is somewhat frail, but Emma still lives independently in her apartment and eats a lot of eggs. interestingly, she also got divorced/separated at a young age and never remarried, which was almost unheard of in Italy at the time.

rallizes mcguire (unregistered), Saturday, 20 June 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link

so eggs?

écorché (S-), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link

Probably not.

In general (and animal studies) high protein diets activate mTOR (and anabolic processes) and suppress catabolic processes like autophagy (which plays a role in clearing cellular trash). In human cohorts, those on low protein diets (<10% E) have a survival advantage over those on high-protein diets (>20%) through about age 70.

However, after age 78, most consume so little calories in any case that higher amounts (as a percent of diet) is beneficial, to keep what's left of the immune system going and prevent sarcopenia. But the longest lived populations in the world aren't heavy egg eaters.

So far, the only thing that I've seen consistent among supercentenarians is light eating in earlier life, though heavy cocoa consumption is disproportionately common.

We'd like to conduct a wobulator test here (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link

third para should read "However, after age "70..."

We'd like to conduct a wobulator test here (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link

All you have to be to live this old is full of shit. FULL OF SHIT OLD PEOPLE.

Jeff, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 11:00 (nine years ago) link

though heavy cocoa consumption is disproportionately common

http://i.imgur.com/L8IzKVL.gif

pplains, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link

Mind, that's mostly just anecdotally based on Jeanne Calment, Leandra Becerra Lumbreras, Stella Nardari-Vecchiato, Helen Reichert and the Kuna Indians of Panama, but its backed up by laboratory experiments that demonstrate all the catechins in cocoa reduce chronic diseases of aging, though they don't seem to have much effect on other fundamental aging processes (stem cells exhaustion, cellular senescence, disregulated growth signaling, etc.). Ie, they offer a greater chance of dying from aging directly, rather than prematurely from aging accelerated chronic diseases.

We'd like to conduct a wobulator test here (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/L8IzKVL.gif

pplains, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link

"the only thing that I've seen consistent among supercentenarians is light eating in earlier life"

damn

écorché (S-), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link

eight months pass...

His reason for longevity is dumb. Stupid oldest people.

Jeff, Friday, 11 March 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link

ha, jeeze if that's what you take away from that. such cynicism.

p crazy to think how infinitesimal the chances of him being alive now are considering what he endured and how old he is. also strange to think that a man who was sent to auschwitz the year he turned 40 is still alive and kicking in 2016.

uncle tenderlegdrop (jim in glasgow), Friday, 11 March 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link

i mean jeez that guy was older when WW2 ended than i am now, and there he is. it makes you consider how much the world can change in your life too. i think abt that with my father in law, who was basically in the queue to a camp in poland when his whole family got out thanks to a schinder-like italian diplomat. and now he's living out in the San Fernando Valley tending his garden and chilling out 24/7.

nomar, Friday, 11 March 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link

The two oldest people in the world during the past week have both been African American women - one living in rural Arkansas and the other in metro Detroit.

These ladies are taking "Get Tough or Die" to an incredible extreme.

― pplains, Tuesday, April 7, 2015 8:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This guy giving those two a run for the money.

pplains, Friday, 11 March 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link

I'm not a cynic I just don't like World's Oldest People!! I've been complaining about those assholes for years!

Jeff, Friday, 11 March 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link

i love the world's oldest people

Treeship, Friday, 11 March 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link

my favorite was the japanese man, a mail carrier who retired in 1960 and lived another 53 years

Treeship, Friday, 11 March 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link


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