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#1 lauritta

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 03:40 PM


World's oldest man turns 112
Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:19am ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - The world's oldest man celebrated his 112th birthday with two bashes at his home in southern Japan on Tuesday, then declared that he wants to live forever.

Tomoji Tanabe held his first celebration on receiving 100,000 yen ($870) and flowers from the local mayor, and the second when he was joined later by his children.

"I want to live forever. I don't want to die," Tanabe was quoted as saying by Kyodo news agency.

Tanabe, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living male in June 2006, is "extremely healthy", said an official at his hometown of Miyakonojo, about 900 km (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo on the island of Kyushu.



Tanabe, whose meals mainly consist of vegetables, said the key to longevity was not drinking alcohol.

Instead, he drinks milk every day and takes walks on his own in the area around his house, where he lives with his son.

The Japanese are among the world's longest-lived people, with the number of those aged 100 or older expected to reach a record of more than 32,000 by the end of the month.

Japanese women have topped the world's longevity ranking for 22 years, while their male compatriots rank second after Icelandic men.

($1=114.95 Yen)


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#2 Shannon Vyff

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 03:42 PM

Someone send him an honorary birthday gift of 'Ending Aging' (and an Alcor brochure :) ) !

No really, if someone has the time.... :)

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:12 PM

He declared he wants to live forever

Best of luck to him. If he can do it, I know my chances are stellar.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:28 PM

Instead, he drinks milk every day and takes walks on his own in the area around his house, where he lives with his son.

If you believe a few groups/websites out there in the wilds of the internet, milk is the most wicked deadly poison known to man. Surprising this guy lasted so long. He must be superman.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:31 PM

Someone send him an honorary birthday gift of 'Ending Aging'  (and an Alcor brochure :) ) !

No really, if someone has the time.... :)


great idea.

I wonder if we can get some support from the super centenarian research foundation to send these things to all super centenarians. (ok probably not, but maybe. At least addresses)

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:35 PM

Huh wait! didn't we hear about this guy about 4 months ago turning to be 111 and said same things?

Btw, I hope he knows about cryonics..

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:35 PM

here is a picture of him... I know some older looking 60 year olds lol.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:39 PM

It's him! someone posted about him few months ago turning 111!
But the picture was different so maybe the article got to imminst late.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:43 PM

Tanabe, whose meals mainly consist of vegetables, said the key to longevity was not drinking alcohol.


I'd like to know his calorie intake [wis]

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 04:46 PM

Here is a video of the young man



#11 Live Forever

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:06 PM

Here is a video of the young man

Wow, he moves/speaks well for such an old man.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:09 PM

I was a little surprised that he didn't need any back support, see how he was sitting almost upright. Most super centenarians usually require some sort of support.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:23 PM

I was a little surprised that he didn't need any back support, see how he was sitting almost upright. Most super centenarians usually require some sort of support.

I guess he is probably beyond being able to walk any more.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:29 PM

Way to raise the bar! [tung]

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:33 PM

I guess he is probably beyond being able to walk any more.

Well, the article says:

Instead, he drinks milk every day and takes walks on his own in the area around his house, where he lives with his son.

So it seems he's still able to walk :)

...My grandpa looks about as old as him (or perhaps a little younger), and he's about 40 years younger than mr. Tanabe.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:44 PM

I'm going to split off the "cryonics prize for supercentenarians part"

found here http://www.imminst.o...&f=1&t=17787&s=

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 07:03 PM

Instead, he drinks milk every day and takes walks on his own in the area around his house, where he lives with his son.

If you believe a few groups/websites out there in the wilds of the internet, milk is the most wicked deadly poison known to man. Surprising this guy lasted so long. He must be superman.

Here's one of those websites at http://www.associate...omogenized.html

The Dangers of Pasteurized, Homogenized Milk
Would You Eat a Cow Pie?
By Tonya Howe
Published Apr 30, 2007

I grew up in the country with a cow farm just down the street so we always had farm fresh milk, straight from the cow. I was a healthy child and have never had a broken bone in my life. Yet, a 12-year Harvard study of 80,000 nurses showed that a high intake of commercial milk appeared to actually increase the risk of bone fractures.

Other studies have shown mounting evidence that milk may play a role in a variety of health problems, including prostate cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, anemia, MS, leukemia and ovarian cancer.

This stuff the dairy industry is passing off as milk, claiming it gives you strong bones, is not good for you. According to Dr. Spreen of the Health Science Institute, in his opinion, pasteurized, homogenized milk does not even qualify as food.

Dr. Spreen claims the homogenization process breaks up and destroys enzymes through its heating process. He says the enzyme xanthine oxidase, in it's altered state, can enter the bloodstream and react against arterial walls, causing the body to protect the area with a layer of cholesterol. This is serious! What is the milk industry trying to do to us?

According to Dr. Spreen the skimming process makes the remaining nutrients more difficult to absorb. He adds, "The calcium is better absorbed in the presence of milk fat (though the high amount of fat in whole milk is for very-fast-growing baby cows, not baby people)."

This is not the first time I have heard that. Some professionals have gone so far as to say only babies need milk and once adulthood is achieved you no longer need milk, but in any case, it is raw milk that offers the nutritional qualities needed.

Cultured products (kefir, yogurt) and enzymatically-altered products (cheese, etc.) are acceptable in moderation. Several reasons why highly processed milk is unhealthy include:

* Calcium in milk is not well absorbed (even less so once
homogenized).
* There isn't enough magnesium in milk.
* There's evidence that the antibodies the body makes to
digest milk are closely related to the antibodies that destroy
islet cells (insulin producers) in the pancreas in cases of
juvenile diabetes.
* Milk contains pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and Bovine
Growth Hormone.

Look at the last item there, bad enough it's bad for your cholesterol and all kinds of other health problems, but would you eat a pesticide? How about a cow pie? I don't know about you, but I'm big enough, I sure don't need to eat cow growth hormones!

It seems the dairy industry does not want to bother with the extra trouble it would be to supply us with good, honest, healthy milk. Getting fresh milk from a farm is not an option for many people who do not live near farms, especially with laws in place to prevent the sale of raw milk from stores in most states.

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#18 lauritta

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 07:39 PM

I agree with elijah, I do not think milk is good for us - at least not after our third birthday. And the milk taste is not exactly what I would call tasteful. In fact, even the smell always make me feel nauseous. But, could be involved a genetic background too. Maybe for him milk is good, but not for me.

anyway, I would like to know what kind of milk he drinks - I bet you it is not the commercial, enzymatic-dead and full of chemicals one. And if it is cow milk or goat or whatever. The proportion could be important too.

I am curious too about the soil and atmosphere in those areas in Japan....I read the book "The Okinawa Program" by the Willcox brothers, and seems to be something more than genes, diet, exercise and spirituality over there...could be the presence of some kind of minerals or the combination of them? can be the oxigen pressure different? iodine? what are the levels of thyroid hormones in these centenarians?

Edited by lauritta, 18 September 2007 - 07:56 PM.


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Posted 18 September 2007 - 08:47 PM

Maybe it's related to the cherry trees :X

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 08:51 PM

there are a little more than twice as many centarians in America as there are in japan, and America has a little more than about twice the population, just as one would expect.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 08:53 PM

I am curious too about the soil and atmosphere in those areas in Japan....I read the book "The Okinawa Program" by the Willcox brothers, and seems to be something more than genes, diet, exercise and spirituality over there...could be the presence of some kind of minerals or the combination of them? can be the oxigen pressure different? iodine? what are the levels of thyroid hormones in these centenarians?


this information largely isn't available, but is the subject of the research of the supercentenarian research foundation.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 09:04 PM

I wouldn't be too focused on looking at levels of thyroid in centenarians or super centenarians. Reason being is you're just looking at an end-point. Their biological status near the very end of their life, rather than looking at something happening 'over time'. The obvious way to look at biological markers and longevity is to get a large cohort and monitor certain levels of gene expression, biomarkers and see how those that live the longest differ. It's a little like looking at sirt1 in centenarians. You might not see it being expressed in muscle tissue at that point in life for example, but during their earlier years it may have been expressed more so. And it's shame we can't tell who's going to become a centenarian, so you gotta get a hell of a lot of people and follow them. There seems to be two classes of centenarians, some that just merely survive to old age, with diseases that normally kill everyone else (they're lucky), and others that really live to that age in rather good health. Some researchers just focus on things like cholesterol, and some centenarians have certain gene variants that protect against heart disease... but just eliminating heart disease isn't going to get you there. This man looks exceptionally well for his age. I hope he makes it to 120 and beyond, but probably unlikely.

It's quite amazing how people age at different rates, not just aging more slowly that they only are a couple years younger biologically, but actually decades younger biologically. This I think gives credit to the idea that there are genes that exist in all of us, some which might be switched on or overexpressed via cr, or other methods which will enable most people to live to 100 and closer to our maximum lifespan. It's true in other animals and just because of our significantly longer lifespan, I don't yet see it as a reason for not being able to improve longevity with things we know now.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 09:16 PM

I looked and didn't see an address, but a package could be sent to the city likely, and then delivered to the honored celebrity.

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 10:16 PM

Matt, I agree with you. The ideal situation would be just creating Longitudinal instead of cross-sectional studies, as is pointed out by Robert Arking in "Biology of Aging"; but I still think that interesting data can be obtained testing thyroid hormones -and many other hormones too. The Neuro - endocrine - and immune system are so related, so integrated, they affect each other so profoundly..... and at the same time, to the rest of our systems....

I do not focus my attention on just one parameter, in this case thyroid hormones, because aging is so multifactorial that would be risible even consider it. It is complex, because even when we divide our attention and analysis to specific tissues or cells or organella, we should always remember that everything in our body is connected, not only intrinsically but in big part with our environment too. That is why we age so different, as you pointed out. We are such a polymorphic species than I amazed how many pharmaceutical drugs are able to affect us in the same way.
Yes, 1000% agre with you, you cannot depend on only one parameter, like cholesterol. Yes, it is important, but to some people 50% important - because they do not have any kind of protection, to others 20%...depends.

But again, never say no to a possible interesting study that can give you valuable data. You be amazed how many times you can find something really intriguing - even from unexpected sources. We can be right, we can be wrong, but at least we should have the opportunity to prove it.

As a researcher, I can tell you that Biology is not a fixed field, and many times it will surprise you with the results - because not always follows a logic.

What you think could be in theory, could be the contrary on the lab bench. Or you could be totally right on your theory, you never know! That is why I hear everybody proposals and do not criticize them until they can prove themselves wrong or right.
Cheers! :)

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 11:07 PM

oh, elrond, thank you for the data: "supercentenarian research foundation" I found their webpage and going to visit right now! :)

Cheers!

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Posted 22 September 2007 - 09:26 AM

To my knowledge one of the key factors is limiting calorie intake. In North America and Western Europe the exact opposite is happening to a large number of people. Obese people have little chance of reaching the age of 70. Look at the picture of Tomoji Tanabe. He's neither obese nor overweight.

To go beyond 112 until more advanced anti-aging concepts have fully matured limiting calorie intake is a very good idea.

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Posted 22 September 2007 - 03:21 PM

Yes, I've done CR for 7 years now. I lost 85 pounds that had accrued due to my three pregnancies --and my knee pain went away, I was able to pass my vision test for my driver's license --had 10 times the energy! You have to know how to do it in a healthy way, the CR society has a lot of great info. Likely Tomoji Tanabe has followed a calories restricted (compared to the typical U.S. diet) with optimal nutrition (high protein, vegetable, low fat) Would be fun to interview him.

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 12:33 PM

There are numerous scientific studies on mice and calories intake. Solid evidence about the effectiveness. I fear that a lot of people won't have the mental strength. In the UK there are now limitations in place of commercials in kids programs. Unhealthy stuff like sweets etc. gets excluded. But we might need more. We need commercials for fruit, vegetables, salads... to convey a positive image that this stuff can taste better than a cheese pizza.

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Posted 28 September 2007 - 01:16 PM

Commercials can help, personally as a child I was scarred by the 'don't drown your food' campaigns here in the U.S. when I was a kid in the 80's, they ran on T.V. the pool veggies--struggling under the goopy fattening dressing.... awe, here it is :

Parents though, it all comes down to the example they set, and the rules they enforce...




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