{"id":91371,"date":"2019-05-28T13:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T20:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/whats-telling-about-telomeres-and-the-aging-process"},"modified":"2019-05-28T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T20:22:28","slug":"whats-telling-about-telomeres-and-the-aging-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/whats-telling-about-telomeres-and-the-aging-process","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Telling About Telomeres (and the Aging Process)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-telling-about-telomeres-and-the-aging-process2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is aging a natural process that we simply have to accept as a fact of life?<\/p>\n<p>A philosopher would say yes. Many doctors would also agree: that our cells eventually reach a point where they can no longer divide and either die or reach senescence, a retirement phase. Many scientists believe in the \u201cHayflick limit\u201d \u2014 that no one can live past about 120 years old. These people might also say that aging \u2014 and dying \u2014 is a good thing; that the world is already overcrowded, that we already cannot handle our aging populations, that life must be finite to appreciate it, that all good things must come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a growing group of people \u2014 including gerontologists, biologists, engineers, and futurists\u2014who believe that aging is a disease in itself, a disease that can be cured. That aging is not an immutable process, an inevitable \u201cdying of the light,\u201d to quote poet Dylan Thomas, but one we can \u201crage against\u201d \u2014 through science, drugs, and lifestyle changes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brainworldmagazine.com\/whats-telling-about-telomeres-and-the-aging-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is aging a natural process that we simply have to accept as a fact of life? A philosopher would say yes. Many doctors would also agree: that our cells eventually reach a point where they can no longer divide and either die or reach senescence, a retirement phase. Many scientists believe in the \u201cHayflick limit\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91371","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\/91371","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}