COULD YOU LIVE TO 150?

A new method to determine biological age suggests maximum human lifespan.

Researchers have developed a new way to track the biological aging process – and the results suggest that humans can live to a maximum of 150 years old.

Aging is a gradual process that happens over our whole life, as our normal body functions slow down.

Researchers distinguish between chronological age (exactly how many years a person has been alive) and biological age (how old a person seems at a cellular level). These two numbers are not always the same for any given person, nor is biological age always linear.

This new study, published in

Nature Communications, reports a method that converts data from an ordinary blood test into a single statistic to determine biological age, as well as understand how it can fluctuate over time in the same person.

The study found that healthy people were very resilient to stresses, while people who had chronic diseases and an elevated risk of mortality were less resilient.