{"id":138082,"date":"2022-04-13T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/mystery-of-why-humans-die-around-80-may-finally-be-solved"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:22:54","slug":"mystery-of-why-humans-die-around-80-may-finally-be-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/mystery-of-why-humans-die-around-80-may-finally-be-solved","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of why humans die around 80 may finally be solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-of-why-humans-die-around-80-may-finally-be-solved.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very good news, if unsurprising.<\/p>\n<p>We already have multiple viable avenues of reducing \u2014 or eliminating altogether \u2014 this particularly pernicious form of remorseless biological entropy.<\/p>\n<p>So good news\u2026 UNLESS you\u2019re one of those people who think death is what MAKES life somehow MEANINGFUL, or that living for thousands of years or more would be BORING.<\/p>\n<p>I \u2014 incase you haven\u2019t noticed \u2014 am NOT one of those people! \ud83d\ude09\ud83d\udc48<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The mystery of why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health-fitness\/body\/science-live-150-might-not-want\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">humans die at around 80<\/a>, while other mammals live far shorter or longer lives, may finally have been solved by scientists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health-fitness\/body\/would-really-like-live-200\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Humans and animals die<\/a> after amassing a similar number of genetic mutations, researchers have found, suggesting the speed of DNA errors is critical in determining the lifespan of a species.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/mystery-of-why-humans-die-around-80-may-finally-be-solved\">Continue reading \u201cMystery of why humans die around 80 may finally be solved\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very good news, if unsurprising. We already have multiple viable avenues of reducing \u2014 or eliminating altogether \u2014 this particularly pernicious form of remorseless biological entropy. So good news\u2026 UNLESS you\u2019re one of those people who think death is what MAKES life somehow MEANINGFUL, or that living for thousands of years or more would be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138082","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}