{"id":124505,"date":"2021-07-01T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-us-military-will-test-an-anti-aging-pill-next-year"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:22:18","slug":"the-us-military-will-test-an-anti-aging-pill-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-us-military-will-test-an-anti-aging-pill-next-year","title":{"rendered":"The US Military Will Test an Anti-Aging Pill Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-military-will-test-an-anti-aging-pill-next-year2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting next year, the US military\u2019s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) will start to test out an experimental pill that it says can actually stave off the effects of aging on soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2021\/06\/socom-to-test-anti-aging-pill-next-year\/\" class=\"\">Breaking Defense<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2021\/06\/socom-to-test-anti-aging-pill-next-year\/\" class=\"\"> reports<\/a>, is part of a push to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/space-force-human-augmentation-necessary\" class=\"\">augment human ability<\/a> and keep combatants healthy and operating at peak performance for longer. And, pending successful performance and clinical tests, it could make its way out into the public as a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/aging-unstoppable-youth\" class=\"\">new longevity treatment<\/a> for the masses as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese efforts are not about creating physical traits that don\u2019t already exist naturally,\u201d SOCOM spokesperson and Navy Commander Tim Hawkins told <em>Breaking Defense<\/em>. \u201cThis is about enhancing the mission readiness of our forces by improving performance characteristics that typically decline with age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting next year, the US military\u2019s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) will start to test out an experimental pill that it says can actually stave off the effects of aging on soldiers. The experiment, Breaking Defense reports, is part of a push to augment human ability and keep combatants healthy and operating at peak performance for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124505","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}