{"id":186654,"date":"2024-04-02T18:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T23:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/hacking-healthspan-gene-therapy-and-your-telomeres"},"modified":"2024-04-02T18:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T23:22:37","slug":"hacking-healthspan-gene-therapy-and-your-telomeres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/hacking-healthspan-gene-therapy-and-your-telomeres","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Healthspan: Gene Therapy and Your Telomeres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacking-healthspan-gene-therapy-and-your-telomeres.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva Science, is the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@bioviva-science\/the-worlds-most-genetically-modified-person-dcc342b93d3e\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"\">world\u2019s most genetically modified person<\/strong><\/a>. She took a telomere-restoring gene therapy in 2015 alongside <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@bioviva-science\/follistatin-gene-therapy-muscle-mass-and-longevity-fb77bce1cbac\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"\">follistatin<\/strong><\/a>, making her the first person to take gene therapy to treat biological aging.<\/p>\n<p>But <em class=\"\">why <\/em>telomeres?<\/p>\n<p>While there are other ways to measure and address the aging process, lengthening telomeres is an especially promising avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva Science, is the world\u2019s most genetically modified person. She took a telomere-restoring gene therapy in 2015 alongside follistatin, making her the first person to take gene therapy to treat biological aging. But why telomeres? While there are other ways to measure and address the aging process, lengthening telomeres is an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186654","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}