The world's oldest person has shared life advice that has helped her get to the ripe old age of 115 - and she says cutting out 'toxic people' is key.
Maria Branyas Morera was born in 1907 and since then she's been around the sun a whopping 116 times, but she's not done yet.
With the help of her daughter, Maria, from California, has started sharing her top tips on life with people on Twitter - and it turns out she' has quite a bit of life experience to share.
In a recent tweet, Maria said that avoiding toxic people was key to happiness, as was 'luck and good genetics'.
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Maria, who has three children, 11 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren, became the oldest person on the planet last week, when 118-year-old French nun Sister Andre sadly passed away.
On Twitter, her biography says she is "very old but not an idiot", and she's tweeted the secret to her long life.
She said it was down to: "Order, tranquillity, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity, and staying away from toxic people".
She added: "I think longevity is also about being lucky. Luck and good genetics."
On the first day of the year, Maria tweeted: "Life is not eternal for anyone... At my age, a new year is a gift, a humble celebration, a new adventure, a beautiful journey, a moment of happiness. Let's enjoy life together."
The previous oldest person, a nun said to be 118, died in her nursing home last week.
French nun Lucile Randon, also known as Sister André, was born in 1904 and took on the title of world's oldest person last year following the death of Kane Tanaka from Japan last year at 119.
A born survivor, she lived through the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and in 2021 she shrugged off Covid with few symptoms, despite the when the virus killing ten residents at her nursing home in southern France, saying "I wasn't scared because I wasn't scared to die."
Spokesman David Tavella said: “There is great sadness but … it was her desire to join her beloved brother.
"For her, it's a liberation."
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