{"id":229021,"date":"2026-01-14T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/this-common-blood-pressure-drug-boosts-lifespan-and-slows-aging-in-animals"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:02:29","slug":"this-common-blood-pressure-drug-boosts-lifespan-and-slows-aging-in-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/this-common-blood-pressure-drug-boosts-lifespan-and-slows-aging-in-animals","title":{"rendered":"This Common Blood Pressure Drug Boosts Lifespan And Slows Aging in Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-common-blood-pressure-drug-boosts-lifespan-and-slows-aging-in-animals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hypertension drug <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rilmenidine\">rilmenidine<\/a> has been found to slow aging in worms \u2013 an effect that, if it translates to humans, could one day help us live longer and stay healthier in old age.<\/p>\n<p>Rilmenidine appears to mimic the effects of caloric restriction on a cellular level, and reducing available energy while maintaining nutrition has been shown to extend lifespans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-018-24146-z\">in several animal models<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this translates to human biology, or is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/skipping-meals-could-be-much-worse-for-you-than-we-realized\">potential risk to our health<\/a>, is a topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/sitn.hms.harvard.edu\/flash\/2020\/can-calorie-restriction-extend-your-lifespan\/\">ongoing debate<\/a>. Finding ways to achieve the same benefits without the costs of extreme calorie cutting could lead to new ways to improve health in old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been found to slow aging in worms \u2013 an effect that, if it translates to humans, could one day help us live longer and stay healthier in old age. Rilmenidine appears to mimic the effects of caloric restriction on a cellular level, and reducing available energy while maintaining nutrition has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229021","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=229021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}