{"id":19695,"date":"2015-11-30T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T18:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/worlds-first-anti-ageing-drug-could-see-humans-live-to-120"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:33","slug":"worlds-first-anti-ageing-drug-could-see-humans-live-to-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/worlds-first-anti-ageing-drug-could-see-humans-live-to-120","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first anti-ageing drug could see humans live to 120"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-anti-ageing-drug-could-see-humans-live-to-120.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/health\/news\/11019987\/10-pence-a-day-drug-could-help-millions-live-longer.html\">anti-ageing drug<\/a> will be tested on humans next year in trials which could see diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s consigned to distant memory.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists now believe that it is possible to actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/11925154\/Deleting-genes-could-boost-lifespan-by-60-per-cent-say-scientists.html\">stop people growing old<\/a> as quickly and help them live in good health well into their 110s and 120s.<\/p>\n<p>Although it might seem like science fiction, researchers have already proven that the diabetes drug metformin extends the life of animals, and the Food and Drug Administration in the US has now given the go ahead for a trial to see if the same effects can be replicated in humans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/12017112\/Worlds-first-anti-ageing-drug-could-see-humans-live-to-120.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first anti-ageing drug will be tested on humans next year in trials which could see diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s consigned to distant memory. Scientists now believe that it is possible to actually stop people growing old as quickly and help them live in good health well into their 110s and 120s. Although [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19695","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69096,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19695\/revisions\/69096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}