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Posted by: @record_116

I visited Morera-Gifu Station today for the first time. A station located in Gifu prefecture, which having the same name as part of her name, Maria Branyas Morera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morera-Gifu_Station

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And, for the record and information of all fans and researchers (just as Japanese forum and Wikipedia's spirit), provide the important link:

I wonder if she read my birthday message or not.

And Gifu's oldest person ever is currently living (Okagi Hayashi). Are you going to visit the city where she lives?

 


   
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New photos of María with her favorite dog. The tweet says that the last time she saw the dog was in August, and she thought it would be the last time with the dog. But she is glad to be alive and to spend one more time with the dog.

María looks fantastic in the photos:

https://twitter.com/MariaBranyas112/status/1774373353517727774


   
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With her family and dogs.

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Maria Branyas Morera has reached the age of 117 years and 66 days. She has entered the top ten oldest validated people ever! Congratulations to Maria Branyas Morera!


   
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Congratulations!

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What a momentous achievement that Maria has accomplished


   
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I think she may have even been one day older than Delphia at 117-66.

Either way Mrs Branyas Morera is well and truly in the top 10 now and not that far off 9th (health permitting).


   
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Maria Branyas Morera has reached the age of 117 years and 67 days. She is now the 10th-oldest validated person ever! Congratulations to Maria Branyas Morera!


   
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Now all of the people in the top ten oldest ever except for Jeanne Calment, Sarah Knauss, and Marie-Louise Meilleur are consecutive WOPs.


   
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A very interesting statistic Sonicbox.

In terms of consecutive WOPs I note Kama Chinen, Eugenie Blanchard, Ana de Lucas and Maria Valentino all passed away at 114.

From then, all of the next 14 WOPs have made it to 116, apart from Dina Manfredini.

And all of the past 7, have made it to 117.


   
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Marie-Louise Meilleur, Jeanne Calment, and Sarah Knauss were consecutive WOPs of each other. So now all the people in the top ten oldest people ever are in one of two groups of consecutive WOPs.


   
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Picture from last summer:

Picture from 1990:

Picture of Ms. Branyas Morera and her mother in 1923:

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Maria has now surpassed the age of Chiyo Miyako and become the ninth-oldest person ever


   
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Posted by: @ale76

https://dependencia.info/noticia/7139/opinion/hoy-he-conocido-a-una-mujer-feliz-de-117-anos.html

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On June 18, 2024.

It's great to know she's still doing well. She is in better health than I would have imagined

 


   
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As of today Mrs Branyas Morera moves level with the age of Emma Morano at 117-137 (42,872 days).

She is now the equal 8th oldest known person of all time and the equal 5th oldest person to have lived in the 21st century.


   
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Maria Branyas Morera has now surpassed Emma Morano. She has become the eighth-oldest validated person ever, the third oldest European ever, and the oldest non-French European ever.


   
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Might be a stupid question, but I'll ask anyway: Any chance of an original birth and/or baptismal record ever being found for her? Since she was born in San Francisco, surely documentation from 1907 from there must exist somewhere, no?

(Not questioning her validation, BTW, in case that wasn't obvious. Just curious about the birth/baptismal record because there's a slight discrepancy over her birth date.)


   
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Translated tweet from 15 August:

Today is the Assumption of Mary, Our Lady of August, feast in many towns and cities.
A few years ago, this date was a meeting day for the whole family to celebrate my saint. Now this is no longer possible and visits and congratulations will be spaced throughout the day. 👇

Sometimes the time marked on the calendar has nothing to do with the mental or emotional time I live inside. Sometimes I feel that I was born in the wrong era, because I have principles that have already been lost and I love values ​​that are now in liquidation. But who cares about that?

As the longed-for Miquel Martí i Pol says in "Pensaments":
"This anxiety of now is also life,
the strangeness of a time that tires without filling;
this is also life to get lost in everything
not knowing very well which way to go"


   
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Topic updated and moved. RIP Ms. Branyas Morera.

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New video of Carme. Since 2:20 she says that she met María Branyas:
 
 
Carme and María have many things in common: One was born in Olot and the other one lived and died in Olot, they met each other, some of their surnames sound and are similar (Noguera means walnut tree and Morera means mulberry)... And both have been supercentenarians!
 
PS: I have written the same comment in the 110 birthday topic of Carme Noguera, but I think I can write it here too.

   
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https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20250309/revelado-secreto-longevidad-maria-branyas-115056998

Estudio genético

Maria Branyas, la superanciana que vivió 117 años "tenía una microbiota como una niña"

Un equipo liderado por el doctor Manel Esteller ha dado con las claves de la longevidad de la 'abuela de Catalunya'

Maria Branyas murió el pasado 19 de agosto a los 117 años, marca que la había convertido en la persona más anciana del mundo. A pesar de su avanzada edad, conservaba la lucidez intacta y apenas sufría dolor articular y sordera.

En búsqueda de las claves de la longevidad, el científico Manel Esteller, jefe del Grupo de Epigenética del Institut Josep Carreras, estudió su genes y ahora cree haber dado con el 'secreto Branyas'. Según ha explicado a TV3, la superanciana había heredado un genoma que hacía que sus células equivalieran a las de una persona de "entre 100 y 102 años". Y, además, contaba con una microbiota intestinal con un número de bifidobacterias parecida a la de un niño pequeño.

Varios equipos de investigación son los implicados en el análisis del organismo de Branyas, del que se han estudiado desde las mutaciones genéticas, los tejidos e, incluso, sus heces para esclarecer los factores de su extraordinaria longevidad.

El estudio hecho a Maria Branyas, que vivió hasta los 117 años en buen estado de salud, demuestra que la vejez no va necesariamente asociada a la enfermedad, ya que, según los investigadores, su genoma hacía que sus células "se sintieran" y "se comportaran" como células más jóvenes, "con una edad biológica de unos diecisiete años menos".

Según ha indicado Manel Esteller en unas declaraciones a EFE, el genoma privilegiado de Maria Branyas heredado de su padre y de su madre "le concedía una gran protección frente a enfermedades cardiovasculares y de otros tipos, y su microbiota hacía que tuviera una baja inflamación intestinal".

Una microbiota propia de una niña

De hecho, ha precisado Esteller, Maria Branyas "tenía una microbiota intestinal como la de una niña", por lo que ambos factores, el genoma privilegiado y una microbiota muy sana, hacían que hubiera un decalaje entre su edad cronológica y la biológica".

Manel Esteller, que está considerado como una de las máximas autoridades en epigenética y en el estudio del envejecimiento y el cáncer, considera que el estudio genético a Maria Branyas supone la investigación "más exhaustiva y completa" que se ha hecho a una persona supercentenaria. "Hay bastantes personas centenarias en el mundo pero pocas supercentenarias, que son las que sobrepasan los 110 años", ha aclarado Esteller.

En el estudio, participaron equipos de investigadores de prestigio internacional, y se llevó a cabo porque estaban convencidos del interés que podía tener el análisis de los genes de la abuela supercentenaria.

Unos análisis que, junto a los genéticos, también estudieron otros parámetros de su organismo, como los tejidos y la microbiota intestinal y que, en su conjunto, han aportado datos muy valiosos para los científicos para ayudar a explicar los mecanismos del envejecimiento.

Grasa, azúcar y demencia

Según ha explicado Esteller en la televisión catalana, una de las conclusiones del estudio es que Branyas "tenía dos mutaciones que, pese a ser malas, no le habían provocado ninguna enfermedad", lo que explicaría que "tenía mecanismos que la protegían de estas mutaciones". Así, sus valores de grasa y azúcar eran "perfectos" y se mantenía alejada de la demencia.

En concreto, la analítica incluyó su genoma, pero también análisis transcriptómico, metabolómico, proteómico, microbiómico y epigenómico de diferentes tejidos.

Los investigadores identificaron variantes genéticas raras a través de la secuenciación completa del genoma, y constataron su excepcional perfil lipídico en sangre, con niveles de colesterol bueno (HDL) muy elevados y de colesterol malo (LDL) muy bajos.

Por su parte, el análisis de las heces ha corrido a cargo de los científicos del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Girona (IDIBGI), dirigidos por el doctor Xavier Aldeguer, quien considera que la microbiota se comporta como un órgano al tener capacidad de metabolizar proteínas o grasas. Pues bien. El estudio de Branyas ha desvelado que la mujer contaba con un número de bifidobacterias, que son antiinflamatorias, correspondientes a la edad infantil y que, según han explicado en TV3, "podrían estar ligadas a la ingesta de lácteos", ha añadido.

Maria Branyas no tenía exceso de azúcar en sangre, lo que evitaba el riesgo de diabetes u obesidad, y observaron que sus genes mantenían bajo control las infecciones y la regulación autoinmune, además de presentar bajas concentraciones de glicoproteínas A y B, lo que indica un perfil inflamatorio saludable que evita la presencia de enfermedades inflamatorias sistémicas.

Esto ayuda a comprender su buen estado de salud, ya que al final de su vida tan solo sufrió sordera y dolor articular, mientras que su lucidez se mantuvo hasta casi al final, con un bajón que tuvo lugar solo en los últimos meses.

Un estilo de vida saludable

Los investigadores comprobaron que Maria Branyas seguía una dieta mediterránea que incluía la ingesta de tres yogures al día, y están convencidos de que esto contribuyó a mantener sanas sus bacterias intestinales.

"Le gustaba andar, no bebía alcohol ni fumaba y estaba acompañada muy a menudo por su familia, con lo cual no se sentía aislada y esto evitaba la demencia", ha explicado Manel Esteller.

Según los autores de este estudio, los resultados servirán para tratar de elaborar "tipos de patrones prebióticos asociados a la longevidad", y además, trabajarán para conseguir "fármacos útiles en la lucha contra el envejecimiento, junto a la definición de dietas adecuadas".

El estudio refuerza, asimismo la idea de que el envejecimiento y la enfermedad pueden, bajo determinadas condiciones, desvincularse, lo que "desafía la percepción general de que están inexorablemente ligados", explican.

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A Mediterranean diet can certainly do wonders, no doubt! 🙂


   
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@futurist Unfortunately, the mediterranean diet is dissappearing due to globalization and fast food culture. Spain now is the european country with more obese children...


   
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One can still make Mediterranean-style meals at home or go to Mediterranean-themed restaurants, no?

Here in the US, one can buy fruits, vegetables, hummus, and some other Mediterranean-style food such as falafel at local grocery stores, such as Costco, at least some of the time:

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Biology of Healthy Aging: A 117-Year-Old Reveals Her Secrets

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.24.639740v1

ABSTRACT

The indexed individual, from now on termed M116, was the world’s oldest verified living person from January 17th 2023 until her passing on August 19th 2024, reaching the age of 117 years and 168 days ( https://www.supercentenarian.com/records.html ). She was a Caucasian woman born on March 4th 1907 in San Francisco, USA, from Spanish parents and settled in Spain since she was 8. A timeline of her life events and her genealogical tree are shown in Supplementary Fig. 1a-b. Although centenarians are becoming more common in the demographics of human populations, the so-called supercentenarians (over 110 years old) are still a rarity. In Catalonia, the historic nation where M116 lived, the life-expectancy for women is 86 years, so she exceeded the average by more than 30 years ( https://www.idescat.cat ). In a similar manner to premature aging syndromes, such as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria and Werner syndrome, which can provide relevant clues about the mechanisms of aging, the study of supercentenarians might also shed light on the pathways involved in lifespan. To unfold the biological properties exhibited by such a remarkable human being, we developed a comprehensive multiomics analysis of her genomic, transcriptomic, metabolomic, proteomic, microbiomic and epigenomic landscapes in different tissues, as depicted in Fig. 1a, comparing the results with those observed in non-supercentenarian populations. The picture that emerges from our study shows that extremely advanced age and poor health are not intrinsically linked and that both processes can be distinguished and dissected at the molecular level.

 


   
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@futurist I'm only saying that diet in Mediterranean Countries is worsening. But still, it is quite healthy. The problem is that young people tend to eat more fast food than some time ago.

But Mediterranean Countries still have a good diet, specially in comparison to countries like USA...


   
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