{"id":104096,"date":"2020-03-21T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/flipping-the-switch-on-the-ageing-process"},"modified":"2020-03-21T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T04:02:31","slug":"flipping-the-switch-on-the-ageing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/flipping-the-switch-on-the-ageing-process","title":{"rendered":"Flipping the switch on the ageing process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flipping-the-switch-on-the-ageing-process.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sinclair does not have anything to lose. He takes a number of drugs including the anti-diabetic medication metformin, given to him by his son David, the renowned Australian biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, to combat the ill-effects of ageing.<\/p>\n<p>David Sinclair says his father remains in good health, travelling, socialising and exercising with the energy of a man far younger than his 80 years.<\/p>\n<p>David Sinclair will discuss why ageing should be classified as a disease at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Renowned Australian scientist David Sinclair says we have all the information to be young again, \u201cif we can just flip the switch\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sinclair does not have anything to lose. He takes a number of drugs including the anti-diabetic medication metformin, given to him by his son David, the renowned Australian biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, to combat the ill-effects of ageing. David Sinclair says his father remains in good health, travelling, socialising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}