{"id":220592,"date":"2025-08-21T04:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/why-do-some-people-age-faster-than-others-study-identifies-genes-at-play"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:31:39","slug":"why-do-some-people-age-faster-than-others-study-identifies-genes-at-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/why-do-some-people-age-faster-than-others-study-identifies-genes-at-play","title":{"rendered":"Why do some people age faster than others? Study identifies genes at play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-do-some-people-age-faster-than-others-study-identifies-genes-at-play3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fact of life: Some people age better than others. Some ease into their 90s with mind and body intact, while others battle diabetes, Alzheimer\u2019s or mobility issues decades earlier. Some can withstand a bad fall or bout of the flu with ease, while others never leave the hospital again.<\/p>\n<p>New University of Colorado Boulder-led research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41588-025-02269-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Genetics<\/i>, sheds light on why that is.<\/p>\n<p>In it, an international team of co-authors identifies more than 400 genes associated with accelerated aging across seven different sub-types. The study reveals that different groups of genes underlie different kinds of disordered aging, a.k.a. frailty, ranging from cognitive decline to mobility issues to social isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a fact of life: Some people age better than others. Some ease into their 90s with mind and body intact, while others battle diabetes, Alzheimer\u2019s or mobility issues decades earlier. Some can withstand a bad fall or bout of the flu with ease, while others never leave the hospital again. New University of Colorado [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220592","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}