#378 Alternative to Collagen Peptides, What's the Maximum Human Lifespan - Q&A

Siim Land (0:00)

How long will humans be able to live in the future? And what's a good alternative to collagen if you can't take it? These are some of the topics we're going to cover in this Q&A episode. If you want to ask me a question in the future, then make sure you follow me on Instagram at Siim Land.

It's showtime. All right. The first question is, until what age do you think we'll be able to live with all the new technologies and information? So that's a very interesting question. I'm actually researching my next book, or actually, I'm already in a process of writing my next book that is focused around longevity and life extension. And this is something that I've been just looking at researching over the last few weeks and months. So what I've come to the conclusion right now is that there is, let's say, obviously, the certain current estimated biological limit for human lifespan, which is around 120 years. The oldest living person in history was John Clament from France. She lived until the age of 122, which is the greatest, longest living human in history. The second place is a Japanese woman, and she lived until 119 years. So there's actually a pretty wide gap between John Clament, who lived until 122, and the second longest living person, and the third longest living person is also 119 years. So there's a three year gap between those things. And because of this reason, many people who were like investigating John Clament's actual verified ages and stuff like that, they came up with this theory that it wasn't actually John Clament who lived until 122 John Clament was maybe thought to die actually at the age of 59, and it was her daughter Yvonne who pretty much pretended to be John Clament. And if that were to be the case, then Yvonne would have died at 99 years of age. So she kind of faked being her mother because of like tax reasons and those kind of things. Now, this theory isn't actually accepted as mainstream theory. The mainstream theory is that yes, John Clament did actually live until 122, and Yvonne died at around 35 years of age to some sort of a disease. So it wasn't Yvonne faking to be her mother. It was actually John Clament living until 122 And we have a lot of like this birth data and a lot of these other age verifiers who interviewed John Clament today. They came to the conclusion that John Clament was actually the person who lived until 122 And based on this knowledge, then John Clament does exceed what many scientists think is the human maximum lifespan limit, which would be 120 years. But we don't even know if that were to be the actual maximum human lifespan limit, because no one has ever obviously lived longer than John Clament. But with many theories has that with over the past few decades or the next few decades, we're going to have these massive breakthroughs in medicine and technology that are just going to add a bunch of extra years to, of course, those technologies, they're going to increase average life expectancy. That's a trend that is increasing, meaning that people on general are going to live on average longer. But there's no evidence that they would actually break the ceiling of the maximum human lifespan, which is around 120 years. Now, there are also some scientists that use mathematical modeling on mortality rates to see that the human body, you know, it has theoretically the capacity to stay resilient and to wean off this age-rated decline up until the age of like 120 to 150 So they think that the maximum lifespan is like 150 We just haven't reached that yet. And of course, you know, with mathematics, you can always put things into the different kinds of formulas, and you can use Bayesian analysis, which is another method to like predict future outcomes based on previous knowledge, but you don't necessarily know what's the actual, you know, future, let's say, outcomes are going to be. You can never predict whether or not we are actually at the limit. And those theories would say that it's, you know, they say that it's like 90% likely that by the year 2100, so in like 80 years from now, there's like a 99% likelihood that we're going to break the 122 year record. But they say that it's virtually impossible, at least within this century, to make it past 135, even if you take into account the steady increase in average life expectancy. So even all these mathematical models that, you know, don't take into account the limitations of human biology and the aging biology, they're just based on mathematical models of the increase in average life expectancy. Then even those models, they see that the maximum that we could reach within this century is 135