{"id":85543,"date":"2018-12-06T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T18:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/jan-gruber-looking-at-synergistic-effects-in-longevity-therapies"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T18:22:22","slug":"jan-gruber-looking-at-synergistic-effects-in-longevity-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/jan-gruber-looking-at-synergistic-effects-in-longevity-therapies","title":{"rendered":"Jan Gruber \u2013 Looking at synergistic effects in longevity therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jan-gruber-looking-at-synergistic-effects-in-longevity-therapies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And his team at Yale-NUS have recently completed a detailed set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30269951\">studies<\/a> looking at eleven of the most promising anti-aging single drugs, using nematode worms (C. elegans) as their model organism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drug synergy found to increase lifespan in worms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though testing the effects of single drugs on health and longevity in various organisms is challenging by itself, and testing multiple drugs and their synergistic effects can be a logistical and statistical nightmare, they found some surprising results, including up to a 96 percent increase in lifespan [1]. As they conclude in their new paper:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/jan-gruber-interview\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/jan-gruber-interview\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And his team at Yale-NUS have recently completed a detailed set of studies looking at eleven of the most promising anti-aging single drugs, using nematode worms (C. elegans) as their model organism. Drug synergy found to increase lifespan in worms Even though testing the effects of single drugs on health and longevity in various organisms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85543","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\/85543","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=85543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}