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I’m impressed Louis XIV even lived that long in the 18th century

You would be surprised people could live to +200 years 20.000 thousand years ago, water was untouched, not one gram of pollution, all vegetables and fruits no GMO , just imagine drinking water from that time would heal your whole body now a days

If you don't consider infant mortality its was probably close to the nowadays global life expectancy which is in the 70s.
The maximum age for people is close to the 120s based on calculations of chromossomes telomerers.
There's simple a max amount of times a cell can divide due to how DNA replication works and it is also influenced by our size and metabolism rhythm.

Man are living to 70-80 natural, eating fast food , lots of sugar, doing drugs , polluted air, not doing any exercise,and a whole big list that I’m not going to name , now imagine how 70-80 year olds were physically back then … I still believe in my theory, if there was a advanced civilization, they would last more than 200 as humans as everything on nature was virgin , everything!

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You would be surprised people could live to +200 years

Of course I would be.

So why am I not surprised by you not proving your 'claims' with empirical peer reviewed scientific evidence...?!

people could live to +200 years 20.000 thousand years ago

There were no people yet 20.000 thousand - 20.000.000 - years ago.

Sounds like a modern version of the Golden Era myth.

You forgot medical progress, more food being produced both in quantity and quality and technical progress, all of these collaborated to raide life expectancies both in quantity and quality.

Now, the idea that with less pollution and better food people could live longer isn't exactly bad on face value.

It's just investigating the claim doesn't hold up.

Humans nowadays, more remote groups that we find, have on average worse lifespans that we have overall. Found preserved bodies and grave sites also don't show any unnatural longevity. Even among animals, their fossils and remains don't exactly show that prehistoric life lived longer than contemporary wildlife.

The ancient advanced civilization idea is dismissed out of hand because there simply isn't any evidence towards it.

So, yeah. You can believe in your baseless conjecture all you want, but people are gonna make fun of you for it

The whole idea of “humans used to be able to live 200+ years” comes from the fact that in some east asian cultures, it used to be common for people to take on the legal identity of their parent, which might also be the legal identity of their grandparent, and occasionally it would even go another generation or two back. This results in the original person appearing to have never died from a legal perspective.

Or, I suppose, alternately it could be “the pre-diluvian peoples lived 800-950 years or until the flood hit, whichever came first, and Noah’s descendants lived a few centuries” thing from the bible, which doesn’t explain why human lifespans dropped to 70 or so by the time the old testament was actually written.

Sounds like a case of the naturalistic fallacy. I bet he believes that we used to frolic on flowery meadows all day long like some disney princess, before teh big bad evul technology came.

Would be fun to see him trying to survive in real-world nature, not his disney-esque version of it, without all these oh so harmful cultivated plants and animals. Fresh water right out of the creek might also do things to your body, especially your stomach, but I wouldn’t call it “healing”.

People misunderstand the life expectancy of history all the time. It’s due to the insanely high infant mortality rate, sone of which is due to water based diseases being commonplace. Once you get past the age of five, you could live well into old age. No one is living to be 200 years old.

Nature is not your friend. Animals pee and poop in rivers. They die near rivers. Baby animals get hunted and eaten by predators. Some plants and animals are toxic so you won’t eat them.

Oh right, I’m sure you have some records from that time which prove this. The oldest documented person was Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122, but only sea turtles can live to 200.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jeanne-calment

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Timothy Treadwell learned that the hard way; He and his girlfriend became “Purina Bear Chow”. Werner Herzog made a documentary about it.

Disease, famine, and parasites are natural, too, woodsglobal. Mother Nature is a harsh mistress.