{"id":149217,"date":"2022-10-31T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/want-to-live-longer-how-life-extension-industry-will-reboot-health-wellness-and-the-economy"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:24:28","slug":"want-to-live-longer-how-life-extension-industry-will-reboot-health-wellness-and-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/want-to-live-longer-how-life-extension-industry-will-reboot-health-wellness-and-the-economy","title":{"rendered":"Want To Live Longer? How Life Extension Industry Will Reboot Health, Wellness and The Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/want-to-live-longer-how-life-extension-industry-will-reboot-health-wellness-and-the-economy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you want to live a better, healthier and longer life? Me too.<\/p>\n<p>Lets go back to 1937, when Albert Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ascorbic acid\u2014vitamin C\u2014that enables the body to efficiently use carbohydrates, fats, and protein (I use it a lot during cold and flu season, you?). It was a massively consequential discovery, as it not only saved and extended countless lives, but it also contributed to the foundations of modern nutrition. Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi, himself, was blessed with a long life; he died in 1986 at the age of 93. But he might just as well be known for what he said on his 90th birthday: \u201cI wish I could be 75 again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No doubt, that comment elicits more than a few eyerolls today. Especially since the CDC has recently downgraded American life expectancy to just 77 years. But could 75 someday be the new 40\u2014an age by which, like Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi, we\u2019re only hitting our stride? Well, if the burgeoning activity of the life extension industry is any indication, we may actually be on the cusp of making it so\u2014and enjoying life to the fullest right up to the extended end. Which brings us to the morbid thought of mortality\u2014that end state most of us seek to delay, if not dodge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to live a better, healthier and longer life? Me too. Lets go back to 1937, when Albert Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ascorbic acid\u2014vitamin C\u2014that enables the body to efficiently use carbohydrates, fats, and protein (I use it a lot during cold and flu season, you?). It was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149217","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=149217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}