Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a surprising discovery that could help explain our risk for developing chronic diseases or cancers as we get older, and how our food decomposes over time.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s more, their findings, which were reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences <\/em>(PNAS), point to an unexpected link between the ozone chemistry in our atmosphere and our cells\u2019 hardwired ability to ward off disease.<\/p>\n \u201cThe beauty of nature is that it often decides to use similar chemistries throughout a system, but we never thought that we would find a common link between atmospheric chemistry, and the chemistry of our bodies and food,\u201d said Kevin Wilson, the deputy director of Berkeley Lab\u2019s Chemical Sciences Division who led the study. \u201cOur study is the first to explore another chemical pathway that might affect how well the cells in our bodies \u2014 and even our food \u2014 can respond to oxidative stress, such as pollution, over time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a surprising discovery that could help explain our risk for developing chronic diseases or cancers as we get older, and how our food decomposes over time. What\u2019s more, their findings, which were reported recently in the Proceedings of the National [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102933","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}