{"id":72864,"date":"2017-09-26T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/forget-live-fast-die-young-do-the-opposite-instead"},"modified":"2017-09-26T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T15:42:34","slug":"forget-live-fast-die-young-do-the-opposite-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/forget-live-fast-die-young-do-the-opposite-instead","title":{"rendered":"Forget \u2018live fast, die young\u2019 \u2013 do the opposite instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forget-live-fast-die-young-do-the-opposite-instead.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, the only intervention that is known to increase lifespan in multiple species is caloric restriction (CR). Caloric restriction is known to increase lifespan in the majority of mouse strains tested[1]. The effects of CR have even been shown to influence how primates age and reduce the incidence of diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and brain atrophy[2].<\/p>\n<p>Science has known about the effects of CR since the 1930s, when rat experiments first showed researchers this phenomenon[3]. However, despite the various health benefits of CR, how it delays aging has remained a mystery. A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-017-00607-3\">study<\/a> suggests that epigenetic drift may be the answer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/epigenetic-drift\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/epigenetic-drift\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the only intervention that is known to increase lifespan in multiple species is caloric restriction (CR). Caloric restriction is known to increase lifespan in the majority of mouse strains tested[1]. The effects of CR have even been shown to influence how primates age and reduce the incidence of diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72864","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}