{"id":91737,"date":"2019-06-07T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/why-i-am-future-positive-on-my-birthday"},"modified":"2019-06-07T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:22:28","slug":"why-i-am-future-positive-on-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/why-i-am-future-positive-on-my-birthday","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Future Positive on My Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-i-am-future-positive-on-my-birthday.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Putting a bit of positive spin on Birthdays and why you should probably see them as a good thing in the context of aging research.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Not so long ago, it was my 44th birthday, and I\u2019ve finally decided to write something that I\u2019ve been reflecting on for a while. To some people, a birthday is a cause for celebration; for others, it is viewed as a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, if you take the negative view, you could see it as simply a reminder of being another year older and another year closer to the grave. However, this is not how I see it; in fact, I think quite the opposite. I see it as another year closer to our goal: the defeat of age-related diseases due to the progress of rejuvenation biotechnology that offers longer and healthier lives.<\/p>\n<p>From my point of view, viewing birthdays, or, indeed, the passing of time, as a positive or negative thing is largely a question of knowledge and understanding of the aging research field, which ties in with what I want to address today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/why-i-am-future-positive-on-my-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting a bit of positive spin on Birthdays and why you should probably see them as a good thing in the context of aging research. Not so long ago, it was my 44th birthday, and I\u2019ve finally decided to write something that I\u2019ve been reflecting on for a while. To some people, a birthday is [\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-91737","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\/91737","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=91737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}