{"id":72860,"date":"2017-09-25T18:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/a-japanese-doctor-who-studied-longevity-and-lived-to-105-reveals-the-key-to-living-a-long-life"},"modified":"2017-09-25T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T01:42:36","slug":"a-japanese-doctor-who-studied-longevity-and-lived-to-105-reveals-the-key-to-living-a-long-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/a-japanese-doctor-who-studied-longevity-and-lived-to-105-reveals-the-key-to-living-a-long-life","title":{"rendered":"A Japanese doctor who studied longevity \u2014 and lived to 105 \u2014 reveals the key to living a long life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-japanese-doctor-who-studied-longevity-and-lived-to-105-reveals-the-key-to-living-a-long-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On July 18, 2017 Japan lost a national treasure. He was the 105-year-old Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hinohara made a lion\u2019s contribution to healthcare in Japan, both as a practicing medical doctor and as a physician. He headed five foundations in addition to being the president of St Luke\u2019s International Hospital in Tokyo. He was responsible for introducing Japan\u2019s system of comprehensive annual medical check-ups, which have been credited with greatly contributing to the country\u2019s longevity, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/healthy-living\/japanese-doctor-shigeaki-hinohara-st-lukes-international-university-fun-a7864786.html\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those are laudable achievements, but it is his longevity and the fact that he saw patients until a few months before his death that defies everything we have come to expect of old age.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/altratimes.com\/japanese-doctor-studied-longevity-lived-105-reveals-key-living-long-life\/\">http:\/\/altratimes.com\/japanese-doctor-studied-longevity-live...long-life\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 18, 2017 Japan lost a national treasure. He was the 105-year-old Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara. Dr. Hinohara made a lion\u2019s contribution to healthcare in Japan, both as a practicing medical doctor and as a physician. He headed five foundations in addition to being the president of St Luke\u2019s International Hospital in Tokyo. He was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72860","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\/72860","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}