{"id":2792,"date":"2023-04-14T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:27:33","slug":"heres-how-people-live-to-be-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2792","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How People Live to be 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2793\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-770x514.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-1155x770.png 1155w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-370x247.png 370w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-293x195.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137-390x260.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-137.png 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you seeking a roadmap to a longer life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new study claims to have discovered a \u201cblueprint\u201d for longevity by studying people who have lived to be over 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers from Boston University and Tufts Medical Center found that people who live to be 100 years old or older \u2013 called centenarians \u2013 may have a unique composition of immune cells highly protective against illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur data support the hypothesis that centenarians have protective factors that enable (them) to recover from disease and reach extreme old ages,\u201d said lead author Tanya Karagiannis, a senior bioinformatician at the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science, and Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People with normal immune systems are exposed to infections, recover from them, and learn to adapt to future infections. While the immune system\u2019s ability to respond to infections declines with age, scientists hypothesized this might differ for centenarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers analyzed immune cells circulating in the blood taken from seven centenarian participants in North America and identified immune-specific patterns of aging and extreme human longevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They compared this information with other publicly available data that looked at immune cells from people ranging across the human lifespan and found centenarians\u2019 immune profile did not follow trends associated with natural aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The findings \u201cprovide support to the hypothesis that centenarians are enriched with protective factors that increase their ability to recover from infections,\u201d said senior author Paola Sebastiani, director of the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science and Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s unclear if this unique immunological ability is genetic, naturally occurring, or a confluence of outside factors, said senior author Stefano Monti, associate professor of medicine, biostatistics, and bioinformatics at Boston University\u2019s School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe answer to what makes you live longer is a very complex one,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s multiple factors; there\u2019s the genetics \u2013 what you inherit from a parent, there\u2019s a lifestyle, there\u2019s luck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authors hope their findings build on existing research that could help develop therapeutics for the world\u2019s aging population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCentenarians and their exceptional longevity provide a \u2018blueprint\u2019 for how we might live more productive, healthful lives,\u201d said senior author George J. 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Researchers from Boston University and Tufts Medical Center found that people who live to be 100 years old or older \u2013 called centenarians \u2013 may have a unique composition of immune cells highly protective against illnesses. \u201cOur data support the hypothesis that centenarians have protective factors that enable (them) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}