{"id":208190,"date":"2025-03-09T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/the-blood-of-exceptionally-long-lived-people-suggests-crucial-differences"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T19:03:11","slug":"the-blood-of-exceptionally-long-lived-people-suggests-crucial-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/the-blood-of-exceptionally-long-lived-people-suggests-crucial-differences","title":{"rendered":"The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Suggests Crucial Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-blood-of-exceptionally-long-lived-people-suggests-crucial-differences.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2021\/02\/living-to-one-hundred-life-expectancy\/\">fastest-growing demographic group<\/a> of the world\u2019s population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>How long humans can live, and what determines a long and healthy life, have been of interest for as long as we know. Plato and Aristotle discussed and <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/12092789\/\">wrote about the ageing process<\/a> over 2,300 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit of understanding the secrets behind exceptional longevity isn\u2019t easy, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world\u2019s population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s. How long humans can live, and what determines a long and healthy life, have been of interest for as long as we know. Plato and Aristotle discussed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208190","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}