{"id":118183,"date":"2021-01-08T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/do-we-have-to-age"},"modified":"2021-01-08T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:22:30","slug":"do-we-have-to-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/do-we-have-to-age","title":{"rendered":"Do we have to age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-we-have-to-age2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once, at a friend\u2019s wedding, he left a group of guests mildly incensed for suggesting that near-future humans might live well into their 100s. A similar thing happens at dinner parties, where the responses are more polite but no less sceptical. Eventually, he says, \u201cI think we are very likely to have a drug that treats ageing in the next 10 years.\u201d Steele believes we will be hopelessly unlucky if scientists don\u2019t make a breakthrough within that time, given how many human trials are in progress or upcoming. And although these breakthroughs won\u2019t result in treatments that extend our lives by 100 years, they will give us enough extra time to ensure we\u2019re alive for subsequent breakthroughs, subsequent treatments, subsequent additions in lifespan and so on.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The biologist Andrew Steele thinks ageing is a disease that can be treated. But if we had a cure for getting old, what would that mean for us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, at a friend\u2019s wedding, he left a group of guests mildly incensed for suggesting that near-future humans might live well into their 100s. A similar thing happens at dinner parties, where the responses are more polite but no less sceptical. Eventually, he says, \u201cI think we are very likely to have a drug that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118183","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}