Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
- Jiroemon Kimura, who is on record as the world’s oldest man, died at the reported age of a hundred and sixteen, in 2013.
- His passing spawned a slew of articles about the secret to extreme longevity.
- (Apparently, it’s small meals.) Kimura is said to have been born in a fishing village in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, in April or March of 1897.
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- Jiroemon Kimura, who is on record as the world’s oldest man, died at the reported age of a hundred and sixteen, in 2013.
- His passing spawned a slew of articles about the secret to extreme longevity.
- (Apparently, it’s small meals.) Kimura is said to have been born in a fishing village in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, in April or March of 1897.
Sources: The New Yorker