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Advances in longevity research including new anti-aging medications could help people live longer...
In a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, David McCarthy, a risk management professor at The University of Georgia, calculated that over the course of the next few decades, we may see people particularly, women surpassing age 122...
Average life expectancy is hovering around 76 years old because many younger Americans are dying before they even have the chance to get old due to a complex web of factors including social isolation, racism, easy access to guns, COVID-19, and drug overdoses...
The maximum age of a person still hovers, on average, around 115, he said.. "It's not an unbreakable limit, it's an unbroken one," Milholland told Insider..
It's also possible that even if there are not real improvements in humans' maximum age on the horizon, we may still see a few more people hit age 120 or older in future decades, simply because there were more people being born during the postwar baby boom of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s..
