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America's Oldest Person Just Turned 116 – Here's What Science Says About How to Live That Long

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Naomi Whitehead on her 114th birthday in 2024. (Superlongevity Wiki) Exceptional.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

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Naomi Whitehead lived to be 116, but her story is not just an exceptional number, as recent research reveals how genes, lifestyle, and environment intertwine in the making of longevity, and why the secret of centenarians still lacks a single, sure recipe.

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American Naomi Whitehead celebrated her 116th birthday. Scientists are investigating what is behind extreme longevity and what role genes play in it.

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Naomi Whitehead became only the thirty-third person in history to live to that age.

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