{"id":112457,"date":"2020-09-03T20:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/this-drug-makes-mice-live-longer-and-healthier-lives"},"modified":"2020-09-03T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:24:28","slug":"this-drug-makes-mice-live-longer-and-healthier-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/this-drug-makes-mice-live-longer-and-healthier-lives","title":{"rendered":"This Drug Makes Mice Live Longer and Healthier Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-drug-makes-mice-live-longer-and-healthier-lives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Buck Institute for Research on Aging scientists behind the research found that female mice that were fed enough AKG to maintain a younger mouse\u2019s blood levels of the compound lived eight to 20 percent longer than the control group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-metabolism\/fulltext\/S1550-4131(20)30417-4\">according to research<\/a> published Tuesday in the journal <em>Cell Metabolism<\/em>. On top of that, male and female mice who ate AKG had better fur color, stronger grips, and improved gait compared to others.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a long and bumpy road between a successful mouse experiment and any sort of clinical applications for humans, but scientists are encouraged because AKG is already considered safe for humans to take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big thing about this is that its safety profile is so good,\u201d Holly Brown-Borg, a University of North Carolina aging researcher who didn\u2019t work on the study told <em>Science Magazine<\/em>. \u201cIt has potential and should be explored further, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buck Institute for Research on Aging scientists behind the research found that female mice that were fed enough AKG to maintain a younger mouse\u2019s blood levels of the compound lived eight to 20 percent longer than the control group, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Cell Metabolism. On top of that, male [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112457","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}