Mexican woman to become 'oldest ever human' at 127 puts long life down to eating CHOCOLATE - Polidicks

[url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mexican-woman-become-oldest-ever-4132855[/url] [QUOTE]Family say secrets to her long life are lots of sleep, keeping active, singing to relatives and eating sweets. She has requested beans with tortillas to celebrate A Mexican woman will become the oldest human to have ever lived tomorrow when she reaches the grand old age of 127, it has been reported. Chocolate-lover Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was born on August 31, 1887 - the year Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee. She was 27 when World War II broke out, already a pensioner at 66 when Queen Elizabeth ascended the British throne and 82 when man first set foot on the moon. And the birthday girl's secret to a long life is eating well, chewing on chocolate, sleeping for days on end and never getting married, according to her family. Ms Lumbreras reportedly fought in the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution as a leader of the 'Adelitas' - women who went with their husbands to the battle front. The former seamstress, from the western Mexican city of Zapopan, has already buried her five children and several of her 20 grandchildren - the last died in 2013 aged 90. She also has 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren. [/QUOTE] brb buying chocolate, cooking it up, and injecting it intravenously

She is a MexiCAN ...

"born on August 31, 1887" "She was 27 when World War II broke out" They mean World War I, right?

[QUOTE=jr;45849531]She is a MexiCAN ...[/QUOTE] Not MexiCANT?

[QUOTE]She was 27 when World War II broke out[/QUOTE] I think they mean World War I. :eng101:

christ she lived long enough to see her children pass.. her own kids couldn't out live her

[QUOTE]...life is eating well, chewing on chocolate, sleeping for days on end and never getting married, according to her family.[/QUOTE] Feels like satire. Sushi, Chocolate, loneliness and sleeping.

Think of all the changes she's seen in her life

i instantly thought of this. [video=youtube;pZMSIg1c2XM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZMSIg1c2XM[/video]

I mean, we had barely even figured out electricity in 1887

Man, I wonder what it is like to live this long, she is even older than Nintendo by like 5 years.

Chocolate makes you live longer? ...OFF TO THE STORE! [IMG]http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140825102804/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/3/3d/Foxy_Running_Gif.gif[/IMG] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Reaction image" - Craptasket))[/highlight]

The stuff she's witnessed during her life is incredible

For a moment I was like man it would be cool for me to live to be that old and then everyone could ask me questions about the old days, but then I realized that the internet has probably taken care of any questions anyone could possibly have about right now in the future, making my experiencing it totally useless. Well, shit

Thanks for the tips, mexican lady, can't wait to browse Facepunch in 107 years! [editline]31st August 2014[/editline] But seriously, imagine outliving your children that died by old age.

When she was born the life expectancy in Mexico was 27 years.

[QUOTE]She also has 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren.[/QUOTE] jesus christ

Is there a theoretical maximum age for humans? I wonder how much time she has left.

....with nuts

[QUOTE=ferrus;45849898]Is there a theoretical maximum age for humans? I wonder how much time she has left.[/QUOTE] If you keep replacing parts as needed and figure out how to repair the brain? Nope. There is no magical maximum age. It's all about maintenance and wear and tear. Genetic predispositions can screw you, but again that's something we'll soon be able to fix.

So...any real documentation on that? They said the birth certificate was long gone, so what other confirmation do they have? I say this because I seem to remember hearing about very improbably old people living in some remote village on the other side of the planet, but it turns out they were full of shit because it was a cultural norm to inflate one's age.

She lives in the future. She's lived to see things that the science fiction giants of the past could've only dreamt about.

[QUOTE=ferrus;45849898]Is there a theoretical maximum age for humans?[/QUOTE] I really wouldn't be surprised if the generations after the 1970s have several people approach the 150 to even 200 range due to the extreme advances in healthcare that have occured since the late 1800s and early 1900s combined with the relative lack of armed conflict compared to the past century.

If you rub chocolate on your skin you can live forever

Very cool if it ends up being confirmed. So far [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment"]Jeanne Calment[/URL] is the oldest confirmed human. There's a documentary and everything on her, and she was 122. If this woman is turning 127 then she would technically already be the oldest, unless it was never actually confirmed.

[QUOTE=ferrus;45849898]Is there a theoretical maximum age for humans? I wonder how much time she has left.[/QUOTE] If I understand correctly (probably not), one of the newer theories on the cause of aging is the gradual process of [URL="http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/chromosomes/telomeres/"]telomeres[/URL] (buffers on the ends of DNA strands which prevent damage to the actual DNA in replication) in cell DNA getting damaged with each DNA copy made. As they keep getting smaller, the actual DNA runs a higher risk of parts being damaged/outright destroyed in replication. This screws up/removes the coded instructions in the DNA, which might be why our body gets confused about what to do regarding skin elasticity, organ control and various other things old people have issues with. There's also an enzyme involved called telomerase, which is basically a telomere repair system. Cancer cells apparently manipulate the body to produce it en masse, which is what makes them such invincible little shits. Control over telomerase would let us theoretically repair telomeres whenever we wanted, if not constantly, which would make damage done to them moot. If we can figure out how to repair those end-buffer telomeres on a whole-body scale, or even somehow slow/stop the wearing-down they incur due to the endless copying that occurs, we can theoretically reverse/slow/end aging. Of course, nothing is ever that simple in science, but figuring out how to manipulate telomeres and telomerase at will would be at the very least a massive stepping-stone to the goal of eternal youth. With just fixing telomeres, we could maybe live forever, or at least until disease, lack of food/water/oxygen, external physical harm, self-harming mental illness or general non-internal cell/DNA damage offed us. [editline]ECH[/editline] Of course, I'm personally holding out for synthetics technology to allow immortality. Genes, cells and DNA are all fine and dandy, but being able to survive with no resources besides pure energy, and do so in any place in the universe that won't crush metal/plastic like a pancake or rip it all to pieces sounds sick as hell.

I have a crazy notion that I will live to be a hundred and fifty.

[QUOTE=joshuadim;45849833]jesus christ[/QUOTE] That's not impressive. Mexicans usually get up to those numbers. I know just my dad's side of the family is there

[QUOTE=Dr.C;45850449]That's not impressive. Mexicans usually get up to those numbers. I know just my dad's side of the family is there[/QUOTE] No, having 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren and being alive [I]is[/I] impressive.

She was 17 years old when man invented powered flight. She is now witnessing NASA beginning construction on a rocket that will build a ship in earth orbit that will take men to mars. There were quite a lot of people that witnessed man inventing flight and man landing on the moon