{"id":139090,"date":"2022-05-09T02:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/longevity-research-is-an-economic-necessity"},"modified":"2022-05-09T02:02:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T07:02:23","slug":"longevity-research-is-an-economic-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/longevity-research-is-an-economic-necessity","title":{"rendered":"Longevity Research is an Economic Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/longevity-research-is-an-economic-necessity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is vital to recognize the immediate economic importance of i <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSerlBvh27sUonujimboSfBgQjmkSg8K3Mo_E08e0TH_2g0xsA\/viewform\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">nvesting in longevity and healthy-aging sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aging itself is a complex series of at least 300 biological processes involving more than 10% of our genetic makeup. It follows that methods to combat these effects must be a combination of sciences, from biotech to biophysics and pharmaceuticals. There is no single \u201csilver bullet\u201d solution.<\/p>\n<p>Aging, along with the physical and mental decay that accompanies it, is still widely regarded as a natural and inevitable thing. It is not, it is a degenerative disease in which the physical integrity and structure of our cells decay each time they divide to replace old ones or as part of any healing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is vital to recognize the immediate economic importance of i nvesting in longevity and healthy-aging sciences. Aging itself is a complex series of at least 300 biological processes involving more than 10% of our genetic makeup. It follows that methods to combat these effects must be a combination of sciences, from biotech to biophysics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139090","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}