{"id":88307,"date":"2019-03-02T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/science-has-figured-out-how-to-freeze-the-aging-process"},"modified":"2019-03-02T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T00:02:25","slug":"science-has-figured-out-how-to-freeze-the-aging-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/science-has-figured-out-how-to-freeze-the-aging-process","title":{"rendered":"Science has figured out how to freeze the aging process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-has-figured-out-how-to-freeze-the-aging-process.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medical advances and living standards have extended the average human longevity from 48 years in 1955 to 71 years today, and the elderly are now the fastest growing segment of society. But while our life spans are improving, our health spans are not, writes science journalist Sue Armstrong in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Borrowed-Time-Science-How-Why\/dp\/147293606X\/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Borrowed+Time%3A+The+Science+of+How+and+Why+We+Age&qid=1551395915&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmrnull&tag=lifeboatfound-20\">Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age<\/a>\u201d (Bloomsbury), out now.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"alignleft\" href=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/03ps.age00.c.ta_.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&strip=all\"><img alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"483\" \/ data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/03ps.age00.c.ta_.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=300 300w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/03ps.age00.c.ta_.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=640 640w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/03ps.age00.c.ta_.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=750 750w, https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/02\/03ps.age00.c.ta_.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=600 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past 50 years, health care hasn\u2019t slowed the aging process so much as it has slowed the dying process,\u201d she writes, quoting gerontologist Eileen Crimmins.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/02\/science-has-figured-out-how-to-freeze-the-aging-process\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/02\/science-has-figured-out-how-to...g-process\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical advances and living standards have extended the average human longevity from 48 years in 1955 to 71 years today, and the elderly are now the fastest growing segment of society. But while our life spans are improving, our health spans are not, writes science journalist Sue Armstrong in \u201cBorrowed Time: The Science of How [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88307","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}