{"id":144075,"date":"2022-08-15T23:53:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/why-we-age"},"modified":"2022-08-15T23:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:53:23","slug":"why-we-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/why-we-age","title":{"rendered":"Why We Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-we-age2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do some animals live longer than others?<\/p>\n<p>Is aging inevitable, like the rusting of a tin can, or in some sense preprogrammed?<\/p>\n<p>The answers to these questions could drastically improve human health. My latest piece for BioViva Sciences is a concise overview of the comparative biology of aging.<\/p>\n<p>From oversexed marsupials to happy axolotls, the piece covers a lot of ground.<\/p>\n<p>Certain sections could have been fleshed out further, but the piece was already getting long for Medium.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What is aging? Why do some animals live longer than others? What causes different lifespan? What can we learn from the comparative biology of aging?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/why-we-age\">Continue reading \u201cWhy We Age\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do some animals live longer than others? Is aging inevitable, like the rusting of a tin can, or in some sense preprogrammed? The answers to these questions could drastically improve human health. My latest piece for BioViva Sciences is a concise overview of the comparative biology of aging. From oversexed marsupials to happy axolotls, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144075","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}