{"id":222531,"date":"2025-09-26T04:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/study-of-the-worlds-longest-lived-person-reveals-rare-genes-and-good-bacteria-are-among-the-keys-to-a-long-life"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:32:57","slug":"study-of-the-worlds-longest-lived-person-reveals-rare-genes-and-good-bacteria-are-among-the-keys-to-a-long-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/study-of-the-worlds-longest-lived-person-reveals-rare-genes-and-good-bacteria-are-among-the-keys-to-a-long-life","title":{"rendered":"Study of the world\u2019s longest-lived person reveals rare genes and good bacteria are among the keys to a long life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-of-the-worlds-longest-lived-person-reveals-rare-genes-and-good-bacteria-are-among-the-keys-to-a-long-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the secret of supercentenarians? While there is no magical \u201celixir of life\u201d that allows us to live forever, this incredibly rare group of people who live to be 110 years or older appears to have some biological advantage. To identify the factors that underlie extreme longevity, scientists conducted a comprehensive study of Maria Branyas, who was the world\u2019s oldest verified living person at the time of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the secret of supercentenarians? While there is no magical \u201celixir of life\u201d that allows us to live forever, this incredibly rare group of people who live to be 110 years or older appears to have some biological advantage. To identify the factors that underlie extreme longevity, scientists conducted a comprehensive study of Maria [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222531","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\/222531","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=222531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}