--- --- # 110-Year-Old Man Says a Beer a Day Is the Secret to Longevity ## Video: A 100-Year-Old Sex Therapist on Having Good Sex, Then and Now [Watch (HLS stream): A 100-Year-Old Sex Therapist on Having Good Sex, Then and Now](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uJFYIrvP.m3u8) (3:13)  _Published 2014-08-20. 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. \[[_Omaha.com_](http://www.omaha.com/news/goodnews/a-beer-a-day-is--year-old-nebraska-man/article%5F593400c2-ff01-11e4-91cd-07567e4c1d10.html)\] Long Life: 110-Year-Old Man Says a Beer a Day Is Secret to Longevity ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3892225/longevity-beer-a-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3892225/longevity-beer-a-day/"},"headline":"110-Year-Old Man Says a Beer a Day Is the Secret to Longevity","datePublished":"2015-05-21T15:41:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:27.821Z","description":"He drinks one every day at 3 p.m.","url":"https://time.com/3892225/longevity-beer-a-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mallory Busch","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mallory-busch/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3892225/longevity-beer-a-day/","name":"110-Year-Old Man Says a Beer a Day Is the Secret to Longevity"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A 100-Year-Old Sex Therapist on Having Good Sex, Then and Now","description":"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.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/uJFYIrvP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-20T13:40:15.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uJFYIrvP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3892225/longevity-beer-a-day/","duration":"PT3M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3892225/longevity-beer-a-day/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```