{"id":213680,"date":"2025-05-09T17:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/doctor-behind-80-year-happiness-study-was-shocked-by-the-biggest-predictor-of-a-long-healthy-life"},"modified":"2025-05-09T17:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T22:16:48","slug":"doctor-behind-80-year-happiness-study-was-shocked-by-the-biggest-predictor-of-a-long-healthy-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/doctor-behind-80-year-happiness-study-was-shocked-by-the-biggest-predictor-of-a-long-healthy-life","title":{"rendered":"Doctor behind 80-year happiness study was \u2018shocked\u2019 by the biggest predictor of a long, healthy life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctor-behind-80-year-happiness-study-was-shocked-by-the-biggest-predictor-of-a-long-healthy-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/15\/health\/the-6-foods-you-need-for-a-long-healthy-life\/\">secret to longevity<\/a> wasn\u2019t in the mind or the gut \u2014 but in the heart?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/Nw-tbXv47BE?t=24471s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times Well Festival<\/a> on Wednesday, psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Robert Waldinger announced he and his team were \u201cshocked\u201d by \u201cthe biggest predictor of who was going to live long and stay healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waldinger, the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development \u2014 the longest-running scientific study of adult life \u2014 revealed the predictor was \u201chow connected you were to other people and particularly the warmth of your connection to other people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the secret to longevity wasn\u2019t in the mind or the gut \u2014 but in the heart? Speaking at the inaugural New York Times Well Festival on Wednesday, psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Robert Waldinger announced he and his team were \u201cshocked\u201d by \u201cthe biggest predictor of who was going to live long and stay [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213680","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\/213680","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}