Oldest woman alive: Is she actually 399 years old? TikTok myth debunked

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false rumours of a male monk living until the age of 163.It turns out the person in the separate videos are one and the same and were shared on TikTok by user @auyary13, who is their granddaughter.So how old are they actually and is this whole thing a hoax?Of course the images are a hoax.

If a person had lived to nearly 400 years on this planet, scientists would be itching to discover her secrets and historians desperate to document her takes on anything from the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War One.Some scientists believe that the maximum life span of a human is 150 years, according to one study.Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology's Peter Fedichev, research and senior author of the study, said in Inverse: "What we’re saying here is that the strategy of reducing frailty, so reducing the disease burden, has only an incremental ability to improve your lifespan."This means that even with the most healthy lifestyle possible and a large portion of good luck, people can only live for a certain amount of time.

A person living until 399 is about as likely as the ghost of Karl Marx breaking down your door to urge you to pay the increase in your energy bills, or Boris Johnson resigning from his role as Prime Minister.Luang Pho Yai, or Luang Ta, is a Buddhist monk rumoured to be either 163 or 399, but is actually 109.He lives in Thailand and videos of him have gone viral in which he is seen praying for a little girl.The caption said: "When the little grandson came to call Luang Ta can feel the love and care, called to knock on the head for the great-grandchildren, Amen."Luang Pho Yai still has a way to go to become the oldest person on Earth.