{"id":123877,"date":"2021-06-16T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/we-arent-living-longer-our-improved-lifespan-is-the-result-of-not-dying-young"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:43:14","slug":"we-arent-living-longer-our-improved-lifespan-is-the-result-of-not-dying-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/we-arent-living-longer-our-improved-lifespan-is-the-result-of-not-dying-young","title":{"rendered":"We arent living longer: Our improved lifespan is the result of not dying young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-arent-living-longer-our-improved-lifespan-is-the-result-of-not-dying-young2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We probably cannot slow the rate at which we get older because of biological constraints, an unprecedented study of lifespan statistics in human and non-human primates has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The study set out to test the \u2018invariant rate of aging\u2019 hypothesis, which says that a species has a relatively fixed rate of aging from adulthood. An international collaboration of scientists from 14 countries, including Jos\u00e9 Manuel Aburto from Oxford\u2019s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, analyzed age-specific birth and death data spanning centuries and continents. Led by Fernando Colchero, University of Southern Denmark and Susan Alberts, Duke University, North Carolina, the study was a huge endeavor requiring monitoring wild populations of primates over several decades.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Manuel Aburto says, Our findings support the theory that, rather than slowing down death, more people are living much longer due to a reduction in mortality at younger ages. We compared birth and death data from humans and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/non-human+primates\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">non-human primates<\/a> and found this general pattern of mortality was the same in all of them. This suggests that biological, rather than environmental factors, ultimately control longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We probably cannot slow the rate at which we get older because of biological constraints, an unprecedented study of lifespan statistics in human and non-human primates has confirmed. The study set out to test the \u2018invariant rate of aging\u2019 hypothesis, which says that a species has a relatively fixed rate of aging from adulthood. An [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123877","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\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}