{"id":220407,"date":"2024-04-04T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/why-it-is-time-for-a-longevity-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:19","slug":"why-it-is-time-for-a-longevity-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/why-it-is-time-for-a-longevity-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it is time for a longevity revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"replace-inline-image\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/02102032\/SEI_197723066.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image alignnone size-full wp-image-2425106 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"New Scientist Default Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Elaine Knox \/ Simone Rotella\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit ArticleImageCaption__Credit--NoTitle\">Elaine Knox \/ Simone Rotella<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TODAY, a child born in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/healthandsocialcare\/healthandlifeexpectancies\/articles\/lifeexpectancycalculator\/2019-06-07\">UK<\/a> has a greater than 50 per cent chance of living into their nineties. That is a remarkable testimony to medical, scientific and social progress, which has lowered mortality rates so we die later. It is a widespread trend: global life expectancy now exceeds 70, up from about 47 in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that one longevity revolution is coming to an end. For the first time in human history, the most important health challenge is to age well. So begins a second longevity revolution \u2013 one focused on changing how we age, and slowing\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26234853-700-why-it-is-time-for-a-longevity-revolution\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Elaine Knox \/ Simone Rotella TODAY, a child born in the UK has a greater than 50 per cent chance of living into their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330873,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220407\/revisions\/330873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}