{"id":96957,"date":"2019-10-02T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T01:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/josh-mitteldorf-cracking-the-aging-code"},"modified":"2019-10-02T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T01:02:30","slug":"josh-mitteldorf-cracking-the-aging-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/josh-mitteldorf-cracking-the-aging-code","title":{"rendered":"Josh Mitteldorf \u2014 Cracking the Aging Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Josh Mitteldorf - Cracking the Aging Code\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rt-xVCPUrnc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New interview with author and researcher Dr. Josh Mitteldorf who runs the aging research blog Aging Matters.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Interview with author and researcher Dr. Josh Mitteldorf who runs the aging research blog \u2018Aging Matters\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Josh Mitteldorf is an evolutionary biologist and a long-time contributor to the growing field of aging science. His work in this field has focused on theories of aging. He asks the basic question: why do we age and die?<\/p>\n<p>Josh is the co-author of \u2018Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old \u2014 And What It Means for Staying Young\u2019 : \u201cA revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it.<\/p>\n<p>In Cracking the Aging Code, theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological philosopher Dorion Sagan reveal that evolution and aging are even more complex and breathtaking than we originally thought. Using meticulous multidisciplinary science, as well as reviewing the history of our understanding about evolution, this book makes the case that aging is not something that \u201cjust happens,\u201d nor is it the result of wear and tear or a genetic inevitability. Rather, aging has a fascinating evolutionary purpose: to stabilize populations and ecosystems, which are ever-threatened by cyclic swings that can lead to extinction.<\/p>\n<p>When a population grows too fast it can put itself at risk of a wholesale wipeout. Aging has evolved to help us adjust our growth in a sustainable fashion as well as prevent an ecological crisis from starvation, predation, pollution, or infection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/josh-mitteldorf-cracking-the-aging-code\">Continue reading \u201cJosh Mitteldorf \u2014 Cracking the Aging Code\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New interview with author and researcher Dr. Josh Mitteldorf who runs the aging research blog Aging Matters. Interview with author and researcher Dr. Josh Mitteldorf who runs the aging research blog \u2018Aging Matters\u2019. Dr. Josh Mitteldorf is an evolutionary biologist and a long-time contributor to the growing field of aging science. His work in this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,12,412,269,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-existential-risks","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96957","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\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}