Doctors analyze the DNA of a 117-year-old to discover one food that may help people live longer.

Maria Branyas Morera lived an extraordinary life that spanned more than a century and bridged eras most people today can only imagine.

Born on March 4, 1907, in San Francisco, California, Branyas moved with her Catalan family to Catalonia, Spain when she was just a young girl in 1915.

There, she would spend the rest of her remarkable life, witnessing the seismic shifts of the 20th and early 21st centuries — from global conflicts to medical revolutions and technological transformations that reshaped how we live, work, and age.

When she died on August 19, 2024, at the age of 117 years and 168 days, Maria Branyas Morera held the distinction of being the world’s oldest verified living person, recognized by the Gerontology Research Group and Guinness World Records.

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