{"id":20105,"date":"2015-12-19T07:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/7-genes-that-might-help-you-reach-100"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:14:58","slug":"7-genes-that-might-help-you-reach-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/7-genes-that-might-help-you-reach-100","title":{"rendered":"7 Genes That Might Help You Reach 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/7-genes-that-might-help-you-reach-100.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Healthy living isn\u2019t meaningless, but while all of us can make positive lifestyle modifications, genes play a massive role in longevity \u2014 or there would be no species variation. We\u2019re still discovering exactly which genes provide a longevity boost and what they do, but we now know 7 variants could help give you an advantage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The search for a longevity gene<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previous efforts to search out a \u2018longevity gene\u2019 have been largely unsuccessful, so researchers led by Stuart Kim at Stanford decided to focus on \u2018bad\u2019 gene variants this time \u2014 or more crucially a lack of them. They analysed 800 people over 100 and 5000 people over 90 and found that while many variants are common in the average person, possession of fewer \u2018bad\u2019 versions of 5 crucial genes was indeed associated with longevity. Many long-lived individuals are able to avoid chronic disease despite harmful lifestyle choices like smoking, and this could be one of the explanations. These confirmed 5 add to 2 already associated with longer lifespans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/5-genes-that-might-help-you-make-it-to-100\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy living isn\u2019t meaningless, but while all of us can make positive lifestyle modifications, genes play a massive role in longevity \u2014 or there would be no species variation. We\u2019re still discovering exactly which genes provide a longevity boost and what they do, but we now know 7 variants could help give you an advantage. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63439,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105\/revisions\/63439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}