{"id":120571,"date":"2021-03-14T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/can-some-drugs-delay-aging-scientists-focus-on-those-that-target-frailty-and-age-related-disease"},"modified":"2021-03-14T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:23:30","slug":"can-some-drugs-delay-aging-scientists-focus-on-those-that-target-frailty-and-age-related-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/can-some-drugs-delay-aging-scientists-focus-on-those-that-target-frailty-and-age-related-disease","title":{"rendered":"Can some drugs delay aging? Scientists focus on those that target frailty and age-related disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-some-drugs-delay-aging-scientists-focus-on-those-that-target-frailty-and-age-related-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But such drugs could face a daunting challenge, since aging is not considered a disease. This means the Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to approve a drug for its anti-aging effects, or as a new use for a licensed drug. Also, pharmaceutical companies probably wouldn\u2019t be inclined to develop drugs for that purpose only.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Drugs that can postpone or prevent the onset of debilitating diseases could enhance longevity and provide enormous societal benefits, geroscientists say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But such drugs could face a daunting challenge, since aging is not considered a disease. This means the Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to approve a drug for its anti-aging effects, or as a new use for a licensed drug. Also, pharmaceutical companies probably wouldn\u2019t be inclined to develop drugs for that purpose only. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120571","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\/120571","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}