WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON!!!!

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-oldest-person-in-the-world-keeps-dying/

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

You know, for like a second maybe, they

were also the world's youngest person.

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

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/06/18/jeralean-talley-dead-oldest-woman/28923509/

welp, RIP Jeralean Talley

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

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

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.

so eggs?

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.

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

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

though heavy cocoa consumption is disproportionately common

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

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.

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

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

damn

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/3/guinness-world-records-announces-holocaust-survivor-israel-kristal-as-worlds-oldest-man

er, http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/3/guinness-world-records-announces-holocaust-survivor-israel-kristal-as-worlds-old

His reason for longevity is dumb. Stupid oldest people.

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.

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.

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.

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

i love the world's oldest people

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

I remember a short interview in the Times, probs about 15 years ago, with that French lady who lived to 122. She mentioned meeting Van Gogh and commented how he looked like his brain was gone and he stank of booze.

Some of these living fossils seem like horrible people, the best ones go down with their era imo.

Apparently Van Gogh was a jerk to her though

She worked at her family's general store and he'd come in all drunk and weird and short tempered

He probably was a bit of an arse, but I still didn't like the cut of her jib and others of her type. Gl to people that live healthy enough to span multiple eras, but I don't want to meet ya!

RIP Susannah Mushatt Jones

her successor as world's oldest person (as well as the last person born in the 1800s) is the Italian woman who eats two raw eggs a day, and her successor as oldest American is the American-Italian nun who voted for Obama.

One left from the 1800s

Have always dreaded the end of direct human connection to that century, although recently discovering that the world's oldest cat is only a year older than me has given that dread a rival

lol

sorry to see her go, but she wasn't getting any younger.

that Scooter case smells like a fraud to me tbph. who's to say his mommy hasn't owned two or more phenotypically identical Scooters over the past 30 years? I feel like the feline age verification process is overdue for an upheaval; 38-year-old Creme Puff is the Old Tom Parr of the cat world, and Guinness is making a mockery of itself by continuing to recognize his claim.

otoh I live in fear that the actual last survivor of the 1800s will be some 118-year-old Azerbaijani woman that everyone calls bullshit on because all she has to back up her claim is a 20-year-old passport that says she was born in 1898. I wouldn't be surprised if at least a couple of these claims were genuine (in the 115 to 117-year-old range, anyways...Alimihan Seyiti is a blatant fraud)

("last human survivor", if that part isn't clear)

sucks i won't ever get to be the last survivor of a certain century.

unless... #TRUMP16

i want to become a supercentenarian. going to cut out the heavy drinking and start riding my bike everywhere in new york city. if i keep that up for 83 years i'm in the 110 club.

30 y/o cat doesn't seem so crazy. surprised that's the record. xp

there's a cat in my old neighbourhood who is 24 or so. buddy looks rough as hell (so much so that there is a sign on the block he hangs out on saying "im not neglected, im just really old, please don't call the spca" or words to that effect) but he likes to stroll on a sunny day and likes head rubs still.

30 isn't such an outlandish age for a cat, but where are the birth/baptismal/marriage/census/pension records to support that particular claim? I just don't think it's fair that cats should be held to a lower level of scrutiny than humans.

sad, though

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/14/worlds-oldest-cat-tragically-dies-just-days-after-breaking-recor/

interview with Emma Morano, who had a tough early life:

I worked so hard and I'm still here now, I take my pension and I'm fine. My doctor told me to eat raw meat, preferably ground so I can eat it.

I left home with calm; I took my things and I left. My husband would beat me every day, and I was not doing anything wrong. I went to work and he worked little, I always had to support him. Then an old man who lived near my house one day stops me and tells me, "Emma how can you be with that man there?" I did not go along with most anyone, I was always alone, there was my niece with me who looked after me.

Not exactly per the title and hardly a deep article, but it piqued my interest so I though it might do the same for others following this thread. Holding out for that family photo they have planned: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/21/nought-to-103-in-six-generations-bradford-hanson-family-claim-uk-record

the dreaded day arrives

it must be a trip to be a really old person

that was the last person born in the 1800s, i'm told

Well, the last person born in the 1800s would've had a birthday of Dec. 31.

thank's

Dec. 31, 1899.

people in American Samoa, Midway Islands/U.S.A. and Niue have an unfair advantage when it comes to being born last on a particular day