{"id":234649,"date":"2026-04-05T19:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/we-may-have-even-less-control-over-how-long-we-live-than-previously-thought"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:05:48","slug":"we-may-have-even-less-control-over-how-long-we-live-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/we-may-have-even-less-control-over-how-long-we-live-than-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"We may have even less control over how long we live than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-may-have-even-less-control-over-how-long-we-live-than-previously-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study resets the longevity discussion, after previous research focused on those born between 1870 and 1900, and shows genetics and environment play roughly equal roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study resets the longevity discussion, after previous research focused on those born between 1870 and 1900, and shows genetics and environment play roughly equal roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234649","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=234649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}