{"id":10439,"date":"2021-07-20T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/?p=10439"},"modified":"2021-07-20T04:19:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:19:18","slug":"what-else-do-supercentenarians-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/what-else-do-supercentenarians-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What else do Supercentenarians have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"What else do Supercentenarians have in common?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p>Bertrand Jeune, Robine, and other researchers compared Jeanne Calment with nearly 20 people worldwide who had been verified to have reached at least 115 years of age. They concluded that the lives of these people differed widely and that they had just a few common traits: most of them were female (only two were male), most smoked little or not at all, and they had never been obese. They all had exhibited strong characters, but not all were domineering personalities. Although they aged slowly, all became very frail and their physical fitness declined markedly, especially after age 105. In their final years, they required wheelchairs and were nearly blind and deaf. &#8220;But they did not fear death, and they appeared to be reconciled to the fact their lives would soon end.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"912\" height=\"1306\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MmeCalment1945.png?fit=640%2C917&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MmeCalment1945.png?w=912&amp;ssl=1 912w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MmeCalment1945.png?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MmeCalment1945.png?resize=768%2C1100&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MmeCalment1945.png?resize=715%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption> &#8220;Meet Madam Jeanne Louise Calment, who had the longest confirmed human lifespan:  122 years, 164 days. Apparently, fate strongly approved of the way she lived her life. She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. The Eiffel Tower was built when she was 14 years old. It was at this time she met Vincent van Gogh. &#8220;He was dirty, badly dressed, and disagreeable,&#8221; she recalled in an interview given in 1988. <br>When she was 85, she took up fencing, and still rode her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life, at age 115 she had an operation on her hip, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896. She didn&#8217;t give it up for health reasons; her reason was that she didn&#8217;t like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind. <br>In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs. She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer called Andr\u00e9-Fran\u00e7ois Raffray. He agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs on the condition he would inherit her apartment after she died. However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but then died before she did at the age of 77. His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until the end of her days. <br>Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties. When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she expected to have. Her reply, &#8220;A very short one.&#8221; <br>Here are the Rules of Life from Jeanne Louise Calment: <br>&#8220;I&#8217;m in love with wine.&#8221; <br>&#8220;All babies are beautiful.&#8221; <br>&#8220;I think I will die of laughter.&#8221;<br>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been forgotten by our Good Lord.&#8221;  <br>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got only one wrinkle, and I&#8217;m sitting on it.&#8221; <br>&#8220;I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry often.&#8221; <br>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t change something, don&#8217;t worry about it.&#8221; <br>&#8220;Always keep your smile. That&#8217;s how I explain my long life.&#8221;  <br>&#8220;I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything&#8217;s fine.&#8221; <br>&#8220;I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for sweets.&#8221;  <br>&#8220;I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they&#8217;re starting to rust and buckle a bit.&#8221; <br>&#8220;I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I&#8217;m very lucky.&#8221;<br>\u201cBeing young is a state of mind, it doesn\u2019t depend on one\u2019s body. I\u2019m actually still a young girl, it&#8217;s just that I haven&#8217;t looked so good for the past 70 years.&#8221;<br>At the end of one interview, the journalist said, &#8220;Madame, I hope we will meet again sometime next year.&#8221; To which Jeanne replied, &#8220;Why not? You&#8217;re not that old; you&#8217;ll still be here!\u201d&#8221;<br>Source: Random post on Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The photograph pictures her 1945 at the age of 70 which was past the French life expectancy during that time already.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>She would continue to live for an additional 52 years.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BUT&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> There have been various theories about the authenticity of her age. In 2018, Russian gerontologist Valery Novoselov and mathematician\u00a0Nikolay Zak\u00a0revived the theory that Calment died in 1934 and her daughter Yvonne, born in 1898, assumed her mother&#8217;s official identity and was therefore 99 years old when she died in 1997. <\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeanne_Calment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeanne_Calment (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeanne_Calment<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Does the photograph show a 70 or 47 year old woman?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Was the oldest person a hoax?\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BsISBNRXuh0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rh-negative-blood-and-people\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"IY3Zw3XHDq\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/blood-types-and-life-expectancy-blood-type-o-wins\/\">Blood Types and Life Expectancy<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Blood Types and Life Expectancy&#8221; &#8212; The Rh Negative Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/blood-types-and-life-expectancy-blood-type-o-wins\/embed\/#?secret=7Zfws8xz82#?secret=IY3Zw3XHDq\" data-secret=\"IY3Zw3XHDq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"What else do Supercentenarians have in common?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"What else do Supercentenarians have in common?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>Bertrand Jeune, Robine, and other researchers compared Jeanne Calment with nearly 20 people worldwide who had been verified to have reached at least 115 years of age. They concluded that the lives of these people differed widely and that they had just a few common traits: most of them were female (only two were male), most smoked little or not at all, and they had never been obese. They all had exhibited strong characters, but not all were domineering personalities. Although they aged slowly, all became very frail and their physical fitness declined markedly, especially after age 105. In their final years, they required wheelchairs and were nearly blind and deaf. &#8220;But they did not fear death, and they appeared <div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"What else do Supercentenarians have in common?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"amp_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MmeCalment1945.png?fit=912%2C1306&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DV68-2In","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10451,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions\/10451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}