{"id":197603,"date":"2024-10-13T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/have-we-maxed-out-on-life-expectancy-gains"},"modified":"2024-10-13T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T20:22:23","slug":"have-we-maxed-out-on-life-expectancy-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/have-we-maxed-out-on-life-expectancy-gains","title":{"rendered":"Have We Maxed Out on Life Expectancy Gains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/have-we-maxed-out-on-life-expectancy-gains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is about life expectancy, not radical life extension.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new study has suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39375565\/\">radical life extension is all but impossible in this century<\/a> [1], and it has made waves among people interested in living longer.<\/p>\n<p>A paper titled \u201cImplausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century\u201d was destined to ignite controversy in the longevity community. Published in <i>Nature Aging<\/i>, it lists Jay Olshansky as its corresponding author, a renowned researcher who has been studying the populational dynamics of life expectancy for decades. We delved deeper into this study and reached several prominent community members for comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is about life expectancy, not radical life extension. A new study has suggested that radical life extension is all but impossible in this century [1], and it has made waves among people interested in living longer. A paper titled \u201cImplausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century\u201d was destined to ignite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197603","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=197603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}