{"id":139953,"date":"2022-05-29T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/more-life-decoding-the-secret-of-aging-dw-documentary"},"modified":"2022-05-29T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T22:02:40","slug":"more-life-decoding-the-secret-of-aging-dw-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/more-life-decoding-the-secret-of-aging-dw-documentary","title":{"rendered":"More life \u2014 Decoding the secret of aging | DW Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y-5VLHcTDSQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This just came out, a day or so ago.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Can the aging process be reversed \u2014 or even halted, altogether? If we manage to decode this final mystery of our human biology, we might soon be able to eradicate age-related illnesses like cancer, dementia and heart problems.<\/p>\n<p>The race to invent the miracle pill is well underway. Today, international researchers are getting astonishingly close to realizing humanity\u2019s dream of immortality.<\/p>\n<p>The hunt for immortality gained traction with the discovery of Costa Rica\u2019s so-called \u201cBlue Zone, by Luis Rosero-Bixby. In the \u201cBlue Zone, on the Nicoya Peninsular, he found a remarkable number of centenarians. Here, male life expectancy is the highest in the world. Their healthy lifestyle is one factor, but the promise of longevity is probably also because their telomeres \u2014 sections of DNA found at the end of chromosomes \u2014 are longer than those of the average person.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a field of research currently being explored by Maria Blasco in Madrid. But this is just one of many possible factors influencing the process of aging. Senescent cells may also play a key role. Also known as \u201czombie cells, these attack our body in old age and flood it with alarm signals until, at some point, we collapse under their weight. That\u2019s a theory proposed by another researcher in Spain, Manuel Serrano.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/more-life-decoding-the-secret-of-aging-dw-documentary\">Continue reading \u201cMore life \u2014 Decoding the secret of aging | DW Documentary\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just came out, a day or so ago. Can the aging process be reversed \u2014 or even halted, altogether? If we manage to decode this final mystery of our human biology, we might soon be able to eradicate age-related illnesses like cancer, dementia and heart problems. The race to invent the miracle pill is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139953","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}