--- title: Long Life: 110-Year-Old Man Says a Beer a Day Is Secret to Longevity description: He drinks one every day at 3 p.m. canonical: https://time.com/3892225/longevity-beer-a-day/ author: Mallory Busch article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-21T15:41:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:27.821Z og:title: 110-Year-Old Man Says a Beer a Day Is the Secret to Longevity og:description: He drinks one every day at 3 p.m. og:url: https://time.com/3892225/longevity-beer-a-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 110-Year-Old Man Says a Beer a Day Is the Secret to Longevity twitter:description: He drinks one every day at 3 p.m. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 110-Year-Old Man Says a Beer a Day Is the Secret to Longevity > Sponsored content. 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A practicing sex therapist in New York City, Dr. Shirley Zussman has witnessed everything from the legalization of the contraceptive birth control pill to the AIDs epidemic in the 1980s to the rise of internet porn in the new millenium._ by [Mallory Busch](https://time.com/author/mallory-busch/) ## Mallory Busch May 21, 2015 3:41 PM UTC by [Mallory Busch](https://time.com/author/mallory-busch/) ## Mallory Busch May 21, 2015 3:41 PM UTC Nebraska’s oldest man says a beer a day is the reason he’s lived to 110. Supercentenarian Mark Behrends, who recently celebrated his 110th birthday, claims his daily alcohol consumption is what’s keeping him going, [Omaha.com](http://www.omaha.com/news/goodnews/a-beer-a-day-is--year-old-nebraska-man/article%5F593400c2-ff01-11e4-91cd-07567e4c1d10.html) reports. “He always told everybody the reason he has lived so long is drinking one can of beer, every day at 3 p.m.,” his daughter Lois Bassinger told Omaha.com. Behrends might be onto something. In a[ study published in 2010, ](http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1530-0277.2010.01286.x?r3%5Freferer=wol&tracking%5Faction=preview%5Fclick&show%5Fcheckout=1&purchase%5Freferrer=onlinelibrary.wiley.com&purchase%5Fsite%5Flicense=LICENSE%5FDENIED%5FNO%5FCUSTOMER)University of Texas-Austin researchers indicated that moderate drinkers have a lower mortality risk than non-drinkers and heavy drinkers. The oldest person ever, Jeanne Calment, died at 122 and [did not consume hard alcohol](http://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/drm/007/3-4.pdf), but occasionally had a glass of wine at lunch. \[[_Omaha.com_](http://www.omaha.com/news/goodnews/a-beer-a-day-is--year-old-nebraska-man/article%5F593400c2-ff01-11e4-91cd-07567e4c1d10.html)\] ## Transcript [00:00] Sexual pleasure is only one part of what men and [00:03] women want from each other. They want intimacy, they [00:07] want closeness, they want understanding, they want [00:10] comfort, they want fun, and they want somebody who [00:14] really cares about them beyond going to bed with [00:16] them, and I think people are always seeking that. In [00:20] every generation. [ MUSIC ] [00:23] My name is Shirley Zussman. I just reached a hundred [00:27] years of age, and I am a practicing [00:32] sex therapist. I was invited with my husband [00:36] to a lecture in New Jersey, in 1966. Masters [00:41] and Johnson were the speakers. No body knew about [00:43] them. Human sexual response had just been [00:46] published, what I saw was a couple [00:51] who will say that people had problems in an area [00:55] in their lives that was very important and they were [00:58] recognizing that it was all not just. Glamorous and [01:01] wonderful to be sexual. One had to almost had to [01:05] learn how to be a good partner and to endure the [01:08] pleasure not only for yourself but for each other. And I [01:11] thought we can do that. Why can't we do that? And we [01:15] applied for training with Masters and Johnson at that [01:17] time. The patients that came to us were people who [01:21] read the paper. The only way they do anything about [01:25] the work that was being done there. And the problems [01:28] they came with, was somewhat different than the [01:30] problems they come with today. Mostly, women came [01:33] because would put out orgasmic, they didn't know how [01:36] to achieve an orgasm, but they wanted one. It [01:40] was so over that ,. Goal they had for themselves and [01:43] how do I get there. That was one Masters and [01:47] Johnson's contribution that there was a relatively [01:51] simple way to start learning about your body. In [01:55] other words, get, get to know your, who you are [01:58] sexually and physically and that was. And [02:03] encouragement for masturbation for learning what [02:06] makes you feel good. I [02:12] see a big change in the we view casual sex. [02:17] In the 60's I think it was not just casual it was frantic. [02:21] I'm shocked at the lack of connection with people; [02:25] because of iPhones, even I love my iPhone. There [02:30] is so much less actual physical connection, there's [02:34] less touching, there's less talking, there's less holding, [02:38] there's less looking, [ INAUDIBLE ]. People get pleasure [02:41] from looking at each other. But the most common [02:43] problem, I would say, in the sex therapy [02:49] that I live in, is a lack of desire. You have to look [02:53] at your priorities. You have to decide what is important [02:57] to make you feel good about yourself and your life. 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