{"id":75412,"date":"2018-01-19T04:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/is-aging-natural-or-a-pathological-disease-that-we-can-treat"},"modified":"2018-01-19T04:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:22:30","slug":"is-aging-natural-or-a-pathological-disease-that-we-can-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/is-aging-natural-or-a-pathological-disease-that-we-can-treat","title":{"rendered":"Is aging natural or a pathological disease that we can treat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-aging-natural-or-a-pathological-disease-that-we-can-treat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Treating the diseases of ageing requires rethinking of our approach to treating disease. Rather than a \u201cwhack-a-mole\u201d strategy going after individual conditions, a concerted medical effort against ageing as a whole is in order.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aging is something that we all share, rich or poor; it is something that happens to us all, and we are taught from a young age that it is inevitable. However, some scientists believe that aging is amenable to medical intervention and that such interventions could be the solution to preventing or reversing age-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Academics are currently debating whether aging is natural or a pathological disease that we can treat.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there is now pressure from many academics to classify aging itself as a disease; indeed, doing so could potentially improve funding for aging research and help to speed up progress in finding solutions to age-related diseases.[1] The debate continues, but does it really matter if aging is classified as a disease, or is it largely a matter of semantics?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/is-aging-natural-or-a-disease\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/is-aging-natural-or-a-disease\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treating the diseases of ageing requires rethinking of our approach to treating disease. Rather than a \u201cwhack-a-mole\u201d strategy going after individual conditions, a concerted medical effort against ageing as a whole is in order. Aging is something that we all share, rich or poor; it is something that happens to us all, and we are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412","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\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}