{"id":145486,"date":"2025-10-26T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145486\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:39:08","slug":"want-to-live-longer-how-new-drugs-ai-and-daily-habits-can-extend-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145486\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to live longer? How new drugs, AI and daily habits can extend lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Million-dollar longevity clinics, IV drips, personalised genome sequencing \u2013 the quest for a longer, healthier life often feels like a science fiction movie with an exclusive ticket price.<\/p>\n<p>But as the wellness industry chases <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3270071\/why-bryan-biohacker-botoxed-his-johnson-counter-ageing?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expensive, hi-tech immortality<\/a>, longevity expert Dr Eric Topol, one of the world\u2019s most cited medical researchers, argues the real secret to a longer, healthier life is not hidden in a vial or a complex algorithm \u2013 it is surprisingly ordinary.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In his book Super Agers: An Evidence-based Approach to Longevity, Topol, who chairs the department of translational medicine at Scripps Research in the US, says that activities we can perform in our daily lives have been proven to extend our lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>Topol\u2019s reasoning is twofold. First, he says, we know enough about our <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3321832\/how-boost-your-immune-system-naturally-exercise-and-diet-vaccines?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">immune system<\/a> to help our body delay the manifestation of age-related diseases, or even stop them altogether.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">We can do this in three ways: through what he calls \u201cLifestyle Plus\u201d \u2013 adopting an augmented list of daily habits that promote a healthy immune system; by taking advantage of new classes of drugs; and by using AI\u2019s powerful data-processing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Second, he says, we now have much of the data, and the means of processing it, to accurately predict, on an individual basis, what diseases we may suffer from in our older years.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That allows us to take steps to either avoid such diseases, or moderate their effects when they develop, adding years to our lives in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Million-dollar longevity clinics, IV drips, personalised genome sequencing \u2013 the quest for a longer, healthier life often feels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[5194,110,4094,85869,18,6872,38853,135,77725,19,1666,99,17,85872,85875,85874,64396,85873,85871,85870],"class_list":{"0":"post-145486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-alzheimers","9":"tag-cancer","10":"tag-cardiovascular-disease","11":"tag-dr-eric-topol","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-genomics","14":"tag-glp-1-drugs","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-how-to-age-well","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-immune-system","19":"tag-inflammation","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-lifestyle-plus","22":"tag-medical-data","23":"tag-multi-modal-ai","24":"tag-neurodegenerative-disease","25":"tag-predicting-disease","26":"tag-scripps-research","27":"tag-super-agers-an-evidence-based-approach-to-longevity"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115437919543431236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}