{"id":200575,"date":"2024-12-01T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/what-lobsters-can-teach-us-about-immortality"},"modified":"2024-12-01T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:22:38","slug":"what-lobsters-can-teach-us-about-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/what-lobsters-can-teach-us-about-immortality","title":{"rendered":"What lobsters can teach us about immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-lobsters-can-teach-us-about-immortality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2022, but an interesting look at Lobsters, and list of animals semi-immortal, tortoises, greenland sharks, jellyfish, etc\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Could the key to lobsters\u2019 longevity slow down our biological clocks?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one likes the thought of getting old, but it seems to be an inevitable part of life. Most species grow, develop and repair damage to their bodies until a certain point in adulthood. After this, the body becomes less capable of repairing itself and slowly starts to accumulate damage.<\/p>\n<p>But this doesn\u2019t seem to apply to lobsters. They keep growing throughout their extraordinarily long lives \u2013 the oldest known lobsters captured have weighed over nine kilograms, with ages estimated between 120 and 140 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2022, but an interesting look at Lobsters, and list of animals semi-immortal, tortoises, greenland sharks, jellyfish, etc\u2026 Could the key to lobsters\u2019 longevity slow down our biological clocks? No one likes the thought of getting old, but it seems to be an inevitable part of life. Most species grow, develop and repair damage to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200575","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\/200575","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}