This webinar is the final session of ‘The Emergence of Health: Navigating Through Mechanisms, Drivers, Hallmarks and Analyses’ webinar series. This series also includes webinars on From Stressors to Dynamics of Living Systems: Network Physiology Perspectives of Human Health and Summary Indexes of Health: Markers as Outcomes of Variability, Complexity, and Systemic Adaptations.

Extreme longevity emerges as a complex result of nature-nurture interplay, whose traits are highly population-specific. Environmental characteristics, emergence of genetic characteristics across generations, lifestyle habits and physiological functions contribute to the success of the nature-nurture interactions as population-specific complex dynamics for achieving extreme longevity. The comprehensive framework to deal with extreme longevity should encompass physiology, psychology, sociology, anthropology and philosophy. 

This webinar aims to answer the following questions: which physiological parameters are most conducive to an extreme lifespan? Are they linked with nutritional habits and environmental features? Can we define a universal background for achieving extreme longevity, or are we dealing with content-context relative pathways? It will also provide a basis for defining an eco-evolutionary nature-nurture framework of human extreme longevity to be translated as a model for apparently distinct systems.