How Long Is The Human Lifespan? Here’s What Studies Have Found | mindbodygreen – mindbodygreen

While there are generally three schools of thought around this topic, it's interesting to explore the idea that our life spans could be unlimited if we care for our bodies in a certain way. At the moment, there's limited data to depict the likelihood of living past the age of 110, but one study has found that your chance of death actually plateaus at that age. Patrick explains the researchers used "extreme value theory," which is a field of statistics focused on predicting incredibly rare events. According to the research, while your chances of dying (obviously) increase with age, they level out at 110, and your odds of living to the next year lands at about 47%. She likens this to flipping a coin.

"In the other study, researchers investigated whether people will likely surpass 120 years of age (the current records), or even older, in the next century," Patrick explains in her newsletter. "Their findings suggested that the current records will likely be broken in the next 80 years or so, but it's unlikely that anyone will live beyond 135 years."

Interestingly, in 110- to 115-year-olds, there were no statistically significant differences in sex, genetics, diet, and general lifestyle. Of course, the sample size of these findings is quite small (566 life spans were studied and only nine lived to the age of 115), so only time will really tell if we can continue to increase the average age.

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