{"id":35322,"date":"2017-03-14T01:42:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/chemical-dye-doubles-roundworm-lifespan-could-extend-human-longevity"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:17","slug":"chemical-dye-doubles-roundworm-lifespan-could-extend-human-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/chemical-dye-doubles-roundworm-lifespan-could-extend-human-longevity","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Dye Doubles Roundworm Lifespan, Could Extend Human Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemical-dye-doubles-roundworm-lifespan-could-extend-human-longevity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014In a statement, co-author Monica Driscoll of Rutgers University said that \u201cthe real goal of aging research should not be longevity at all, but rather a person\u2019s health span \u2014 how long they can maintain an active, disease free, high quality of life.\u201d\u2013<\/p>\n<p>NO. The real goal is extending lifespan. The lifespan of the organism was doubled, that is why people will like this when I share it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Most of us try to avoid artificial coloring, but a dye that is used to detect plaques in Alzheimer\u2019s brains is being tested for its seeming ability to counteract the effects of aging.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeker.com\/dye-doubles-roundworm-lifespan-could-extend-human-longevity-2313203960.html\">http:\/\/www.seeker.com\/dye-doubles-roundworm-lifespan-could-e...03960.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014In a statement, co-author Monica Driscoll of Rutgers University said that \u201cthe real goal of aging research should not be longevity at all, but rather a person\u2019s health span \u2014 how long they can maintain an active, disease free, high quality of life.\u201d\u2013 NO. The real goal is extending lifespan. The lifespan of the organism [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35322","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\/35322","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58412,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35322\/revisions\/58412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}