{"id":124942,"date":"2021-07-14T10:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/u-s-special-operations-command-to-test-anti-aging-pill"},"modified":"2021-07-14T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:23:54","slug":"u-s-special-operations-command-to-test-anti-aging-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/u-s-special-operations-command-to-test-anti-aging-pill","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Special Operations Command to Test Anti-Aging Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-special-operations-command-to-test-anti-aging-pill.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military says it is months away from launching clinical trials of a pill designed to block or reduce many degenerative effects of aging\u2014an oral treatment that a leading researcher in the field says is better than nothing while questioning how effective it will ultimately prove.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)\u2014which develops and employs Special Operations Forces worldwide to advance U.S. policies and objectives\u2014has \u201ccompleted preclinical safety and dosing studies in anticipation of follow-on performance testing\u201d of a first-in-class nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, oxidized state (NAD+) enhancer, a small molecule drug being developed by Metro International Biotech (MetroBiotech), Navy Cmdr. Timothy A. Hawkins, a spokesperson for SOCOM, told <em>GEN<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>SOCOM and MetroBiotech are set to start clinical trials during the 2022 federal fiscal year, which starts October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military says it is months away from launching clinical trials of a pill designed to block or reduce many degenerative effects of aging\u2014an oral treatment that a leading researcher in the field says is better than nothing while questioning how effective it will ultimately prove. U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)\u2014which develops and employs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124942","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\/124942","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}