Your article just proved my entire point. „Moderate eating“, „mountain air“.Sorry, I read that wrong, I though you said regeneration CAUSES deterioration. I'd agree that our bodies and the process of regeneration does tend to decline with age, but I don't think it has anything to do with the passage of time. I think, instead, it's the things that have been pointed out again and again on this forum- excess toxins, excess stress (and therefore excess stress hormones like cortisol), low levels of youth associated hormones, and low levels of certain vitamins, minerals, and amino acids like glycine.
You don't need anthropologists to find 170 year olds, seeing as there are claims people living to that age in recent history- Caucasus Peasant Dies at 168; Said to Be World's Oldest Man (Published 1973).
Also, in The Bible, you have claims of many men living hundreds of years, with Methuselah living to an age of 969. Why did they pick such long lifespans? Is it possible that people used to live far longer than we tend to now?
mountain = cold, low oxygen, probably low carb diets too
Mountain also: low inhabitation
mountain also: extremely disproportianate % of people getting extremely old.
if you would account for population density the numbers would be ridicolous.
„his wife of 107 years old“, yet you have to scan through the whole of usa to find even 2 people that age