Scientists at Singapore-based Singapore-based biotech company Gero have developed an iPhone app that accurately estimates biological aging. It discovered that life expectancy has the capacity to be almost double the current norm. The findings are based on blood samples from hundreds of thousands of people in the United States and United Kingdom.
The instrument, called DOSI, uses artificial intelligence to work out body resilience, the ability to recover from injury or disease. DOSI, which stands for dynamic organism state indicator, takes into account age, illnesses, and lifestyles to make its estimates.
If a person’s trends hold into old age, the app finds a complete loss of human body resilience won’t occur until around age 120 to 150. The study, appearing in the journal Nature Communications, also included step count data from around 4,500 American adults.
Improved nutrition, clean water, better sanitation, and the application of medical science have been key to prolonging life. Experts suspect genetic manipulation, calorie restriction, and new medicines may extend life even further.
The Gero team says as people age, they need more and more time to recover after any kind of harmful event. On average, people spend less and less time in their optimal physiological condition when they get older. The predicted weakening in the healthiest, most successfully aging individuals sheds light on why the maximum lifespan appears to plateau at 150.
I’ve often said I want to live at least to 100, just because it’s a nice round number. And I want to see what the world is like then.
And if I could live to be 150, and still be relatively healthy, then I’d probably set that as a goal.
But if you are not healthy at that age, it does make you wonder if living to that age was worth it.
You also have to wonder about eh impact that living twice as long would have on society and the financial system.
Would people still retire in their 60s? What would do for the next 80 years? And if you keep working, how will new entrants into the workplace find work?
Would Social Security run out of money long before that?
Would there be a huge spike in population because people are living longer?
What would that mean for housing and food, and the environment in general?
Will people be living on the moon?
So while science may find a way to extend life, we need to first consider the pros and cons of such a development.
Just because science can do something, doesn’t always mean it should…
I like your reason for wanting to live to be 100. It is, indeed, a nice round number. I’ve made it to my 60s, and that’s good enough for me. If I don’t live a day longer, I’ll be happy with my life span, so everything beyond today is gravy. But the anal-retentive in me, does like the idea of an evenly divisible death number. Such as 81, since that’s 9 squared. It would really bug me to die at some age like 79, or 83.
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yea, that would be a ripoff to die in a year that is a prime number…
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It’s a shameful thing for any tombstone.
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You may want to put in in your will…
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That is very true about how just because something is able to be done, doesn’t mean it should be done! I don’t need to live to 150, that really sounds too long! As long as I am healthy and enjoying life, I am fine with growing older, just not that old!
It would be cool to see all the changes that may happen by the time I was to reach 100, as long as I like the changes!
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C’mon, Carolyn, what’s another 90 years? Go for it.
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Haha! Well then you need to go for it too! AT least go for 40 more years. Think how much more hiking you could do. 🙂
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I guess I could do a lot more hiking, if they were to invent an all-terrain walker. But that’s okay, I’m looking forward to leaving this world. I’ll bet the Other Side, if there is an Other Side, is gonna be a lot of fun.
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Oh yes, it will be a lot better than this 🌎 world! 🙂
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but what if there is no wordpress in the other world?
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Oh that would be sad, wouldn’t it. It will just be replaced with something better. 🙂
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maybe pen palling would be popular again…
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Haha! True!
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what about the old chestnut that the grass isn’t always greener…
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Then it’s best to bring a watering can with you, to the Other Side.
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I thought I read somewhere that you can’t bring things with you…
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You’re allowed to bring a watering can, to water the grass.
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and how many more new words he could teach us…
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LOL! We will be so intelligent by the time we die!
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but nobody will know what we are talking about… 🙂
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It will be our secret code!
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I like the idea of having a secret language!
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😊 Just as long as we don’t forget it!
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we’ll have to create our own translation app…
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if you start saving now, you could get that spa by the time you are 130…
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And then the spa will help her live 20 more years.
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that’s a nice long time to enjoy a spa…
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Oh gee, thats not a long wait at all! 😛
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maybe by then Pennsylvania will be beachfront…
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Haha! Ummm….not sure how good that would be! 😛
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not good for NJ, but maybe good for PA… 🙂
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Haha!
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“Till death do us part” becomes a scarier vow.
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perhaps there will be time limits on marriages, like 100 years…
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Let’s see—how many more Borden Blather posts will it take to get there?😎 The next thing you know, somebody will break Cal Ripken’s record, and you’ll have to keep going.
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just 10 months to go… 🙂
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Wow! That’s amazing!
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when ocd meets goal setting 🙂
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Getting a telegram from The Queen on your hundredth birthday used to be a rare thing earlier in her reign. Now she’s kept busy all the time sending them out! Maybe she should change to 150 before you get the telegram!
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it gives her something to do…
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That is all we need. A bunch of 75 year olds running around having a mid-life crisis!
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well maybe not running…
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nooooooooooooo
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think of all the kinders you’ll live to see reach the age of 100!
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Mg
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uh-oh. another abbreviation I don’t know the meaning of…
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I was trying to type omg (oh my god), but somehow the o got lost, so apparently it was just – oh, god, which kind of works too )
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I was thinking it may have been that 🙂
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I definitely agree with your final statement. Sometimes, I already feel like I’m 150! 😉😂
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I have more and more days like that 🙂
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Sad, isn’t it. It’s not that long before I’ll be halfway there. Time flies by so quickly.
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it sure does…
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I’ve thought a lot about this topic over the years. In my forties I was so healthy, living forever seemed like a great proposition. Now, with rapidly degenerating vision and hearing, I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll even want to continue living in my seventies. WIth that said, at 90 my father is still living a full life and other than some really sore knees, he’s physically fine. I guess I’ll just wait and see.
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and who knows what medical advances there will be in the next 10, 20, or 50 years…
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Well, that’s a good point hearing aids have improved remarkably in the past 4 years.
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that’s good to know…
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This reminded me of the Jewish blessing “may you live to be 120”. I always wondered if it was a blessing or a curse, but as you pointed out, will it be a blessing or curse for society?
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I guess it dependson what medical advances we see over the next few decades. If I can feel like a 20 year old when I’m 100, then I’ll want to keep going 🙂
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I always said somewhere in my nineties would be fine. That is what many family members have managed to attain. But if I am not healthy and can’t have a decent quality of life, then I don’t want to just put in time like other members of my family. I agree with all the societal questions you posed regarding longer life spans. It would be very selfish of us to put such a strain on future generations.
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and you’d have to keep changing the name of your blog 🙂
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Ha ha. I actually wonder what I am going to do when I hit 70.
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I’m sure you will come up with something clever…
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Hi Jim My husband’s grandmother is 100 and can barely walk or talk. She is a bit of a living skeleton and its a bit frightening. I would not want to be like that.
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that is a tough way to age…
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Social security could run out in your life time, even if you only make it to 100. I’m not sure I would want to live 50 years beyond that.
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people will have to work until they are 120!
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I wonder if people would get tired of living to 150. Now if it came with a fountain of youth, I’m in. 🙂
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yes, that fountain of youth would be key… 🙂
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Quality of life springs to mind…I have no fixed figure in my head just the thought that as long as I have my facilities then I’m happy to be here 🙂 x
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yes, I agree. no point living to 150 if you are miserable…
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