{"id":123492,"date":"2021-06-07T03:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-study-finds-most-adults-would-not-take-a-life-extension-pill-even-if-it-existed"},"modified":"2021-06-07T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T10:22:18","slug":"new-study-finds-most-adults-would-not-take-a-life-extension-pill-even-if-it-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-study-finds-most-adults-would-not-take-a-life-extension-pill-even-if-it-existed","title":{"rendered":"New study finds most adults would not take a life extension pill, even if it existed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-finds-most-adults-would-not-take-a-life-extension-pill-even-if-it-existed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark my words. When the first real treatment happens people will change their tune. They need to see it work and see that it\u2019s safe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new study of about 900 U.S. adults has found that only 33% would use a hypothetical life extension treatment that would allow them \u201cto live forever,\u201d even if it were available today. About 42% said they would not use it, and 25% said they were unsure.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published by University of Texas researchers Michael Barnett and Jessica Helphrey, appeared in the Journal of Aging Studies on April 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark my words. When the first real treatment happens people will change their tune. They need to see it work and see that it\u2019s safe. A new study of about 900 U.S. adults has found that only 33% would use a hypothetical life extension treatment that would allow them \u201cto live forever,\u201d even if it [\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-123492","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\/123492","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=123492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}