Russian scientists have exposed the main long-liver of the planet

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Frenchwoman Zhanna Kalman is officially recognized as the oldest inhabitant of the Earth: she died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days, hitting the Guinness Book of Records. At home, a woman was considered almost a national heroine. However, Russian scientists have managed to uncover the secret of the "record longevity" of old woman Zhanna. Researchers are sure that she … pretended to be her mother, who died in the first half of the last century. However, not everyone benefits from making this substitution public.

Gerontologist Valery Novoselov and mathematician Nikolai Zak were the first to question the veracity of the long-liver's fate. And this despite the fact that the longevity of the Frenchwoman was confirmed by many documents (including certificates of birth and baptism). In particular, the geriatrician Novoselova was surprised that in the photographs taken in the last years of her grandmother's life, there are no signs of the so-called senile fragility, which should have appeared when a person is over a hundred, and she also did not have osteoporosis and dementia in such old years. … Moreover, Zhanna smoked all her life (tobacco use accelerates age-related pathology), did not give up alcohol and ate chocolate.

The doubts of the geriatrician were also confirmed by mathematician Nikolai Zak, who calculated that the probability of such a record is negligible. In addition, having studied the archival data and all the materials published about Jeanne in the press, Zak found inconsistencies. They concerned many small (seemingly) details and, above all, external age-related changes (height, eye color, hair, and so on).

Scientists have come to the conclusion that in fact Jeanne Louise Kalman died in 1934 at the age of 58. Apparently, the family members decided to marry her daughter Yvonne (they say, it was she who died, not the parent) in order to avoid paying inheritance tax. Yvonne's mother-in-law and father died in 1931, and the family had to pay huge taxes. With the death of the mother, spending would have increased, and the family at that moment was in financial difficulties. In the event of the death of Yvonne, Jeanne's daughter, taxes would not have to be paid (in the end, it happened), because the property did not belong to her. Therefore, the idea of marrying a daughter to a mother in this case seems quite logical, albeit creepy.

By the way, many years later, long-liver Jeanne (or Yvonne?) Had an agreement with a notary who had to pay her 2.5 thousand francs every month, and after her death, according to the rent agreement, receive ownership of her property in Arles. As a result, he did not wait for real estate - the old woman survived him. However, as Russian scientists are sure, the whole secret is that in fact she died not at 122, but at 99.

As Zak told the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", he shared the results of his research with a consultant of the Guinness Book of Records, but he and his colleagues took this news quite unexpectedly: Russian scientists were accused of being engaged in disinformation. Moreover, in France, the conclusions of our compatriots were considered a conspiracy.

But why such a reaction? In a conversation with a correspondent, Nikolai Zak suggested that the whole point is that one of the large companies allocated a grant to scientists to validate Zhanna's record, and Western researchers themselves earned fame and authority on this story.

However, Russian researchers believe that in the near future the truth will triumph anyway, and this will not be long in coming. By the way, Nikolai Zak was also supported by the British gerontologist Aubrey de Gray. In April, he invited him to Berlin to a major international conference "Reverse Aging", where the report of the Russian scientist was listened to with great interest.

It is possible to finally confirm the version of the record forgery only if scientists manage to convince their French colleagues to exhume Kalman's mother and daughter and conduct a DNA analysis or find the results of the previous one (there is evidence that in the 1990s the "super-longevity" was already carried out).

In the meantime, about Zhanna Kalman, Wikipedia says somewhat vaguely: they say, she is "the only person whose documented age is over 120 years old" and "her biological material and his research have never been presented to the scientific community."

By the way, on May 8, she celebrated the 107th anniversary the oldest blogger grandmother on Earth.