{"id":2669,"date":"2019-03-14T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=238724"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:15","slug":"41-year-old-wrinkled-woman-who-ages-8-times-faster-than-normal-is-defying-all-medical-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/41-year-old-wrinkled-woman-who-ages-8-times-faster-than-normal-is-defying-all-medical-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"41-Year-Old Wrinkled Woman Who Ages 8 Times Faster Than Normal Is Defying All Medical Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drb960u7vv58y.cloudfront.net\/resize\/238776\/1200\/630\/image.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">When Linda gave birth to Tiffany and Chad three years apart, she had no clue she carried the progeria gene.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Linda had never experienced any symptoms of progeria, a debilitating genetic mutation often referred to as the \u201cBenjamin Button\u201d disease. It causes the body to age much faster than the average person.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Both Tiffany and Chad were born with the condition, but they looked healthy and normal at birth.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">As they grew older, Linda couldn\u2019t help but notice that the siblings were much shorter and smaller than their classmates. Still, no one thought much of it.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">It wasn\u2019t until Chad began suffering from heart problems and frequent broken bones that doctors took things more seriously.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">There are only 156 reported cases of progeria, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progeriaresearch.org\/quick-facts\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Progeria Research Foundation<\/a>, and it\u2019s pretty rare for those who have it to live past the age of 12.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Chad died from the disease at the age of 38. The family instantly feared that his older sister, Tiffany, would suffer the same fate.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Experts believe Tiffany, who is now 41 years old and living in Ohio, could very well be the oldest living person with progeria.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Progeria has caused Tiffany to experience tooth decay, hair loss, wrinkled skin, joint stiffness, and heart problems, among other issues \u2014 but the loss of her brother opened her eyes to life\u2019s vast possibilities.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">As you\u2019re about to see, this incredible and inspiring woman lives her life as normally as possible. She doesn\u2019t consider herself a miracle, but the medical community begs to differ.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-progeria-defying-odds\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Linda gave birth to Tiffany and Chad three years apart, she had no clue she carried the progeria gene.Linda had never experienced any symptoms of progeria, a debilitating genetic mutation often referred to as the \u201cBenjamin Button\u201d disease. It causes the body to age much faster than the average person.Both Tiffany and Chad were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45823,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/45823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}