{"id":101968,"date":"2020-02-06T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/molecular-switch-reverses-chronic-inflammation-and-aging"},"modified":"2020-02-06T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:45:22","slug":"molecular-switch-reverses-chronic-inflammation-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/molecular-switch-reverses-chronic-inflammation-and-aging","title":{"rendered":"Molecular \u2018switch\u2019 reverses chronic inflammation and aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-switch-reverses-chronic-inflammation-and-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chronic inflammation, which results when old age, stress or environmental toxins keep the body\u2019s immune system in overdrive, can contribute to a variety of devastating diseases, from Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s to diabetes and cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a molecular \u201cswitch\u201d that controls the immune machinery responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/chronic+inflammation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chronic inflammation<\/a> in the body. The finding, which appears online Feb. 6 in the journal <i>Cell Metabolism<\/i>, could lead to new ways to halt or even reverse many of these age-related conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy lab is very interested in understanding the reversibility of aging,\u201d said senior author Danica Chen, associate professor of metabolic biology, nutritional sciences and toxicology at UC Berkeley. \u201cIn the past, we showed that aged stem cells can be rejuvenated. Now, we are asking: to what extent can aging be reversed? And we are doing that by looking at physiological conditions, like inflammation and insulin resistance, that have been associated with aging-related degeneration and diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic inflammation, which results when old age, stress or environmental toxins keep the body\u2019s immune system in overdrive, can contribute to a variety of devastating diseases, from Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s to diabetes and cancer. Now, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have identified a molecular \u201cswitch\u201d that controls the immune machinery responsible for chronic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968","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\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}