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The longevity/life extension field has been operating without a well-defined control group. Until recently, cataloging the world’s oldest people was the domain of unfunded volunteers in their spare time. Two years ago, only 9 living supercentenarians (age 110+) were recognized by the most well-known group of researchers. LongeviQuest (LQ) was founded to address this gap by professionalizing age validation research. Our staff researchers, via a peer-reviewed process, have validated the ages of nearly 200 supercentenarians alive today and hundreds more deceased supercentenarians going back to people born in the 1830s. We have found that living to 110+ is far more common than previously believed and has been for centuries. Many supercentenarians are anonymous, but most have relatable life stories that either they or their families are eager to tell. All supercentenarians are exemplars of healthy longevity, with healthspans lasting over a century even if they decline in their final years. On an anonymized basis, supercentenarians may have even more to teach us, especially when the data is aggregated. From the start, we have collected nutritional, lifestyle, and biographical data. Whereas in the past this information was anecdotal, there is now sufficient data on supercentenarians to enable statistical analysis. Many supercentenarians are eager to participate in research that benefits posterity. From willing participants, we have begun to gather more advanced data which we expect will have functional utility for biological research including drug development. Our aim is to learn all we can from the “Olympians of Longevity.”
Ben Meyers founded LongeviQuest (LQ) in 2022. A lifelong history aficionado, he first learned of supercentenarians when researching the last living veterans of World War I. In 2007 at age 17, he founded “The 110 Club” website which became the online hub for supercentenarian age validation research for 15 years. In that time, Meyers graduated from college and found early success in commercial insurance brokerage. However, supercentenarians were still understudied, and now he had the means to address that. He founded (and funded) LongeviQuest to modernize the field, uniting many of the world’s leading age validators within one organization.