{"id":113739,"date":"2020-10-02T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/could-a-poo-transplant-one-day-be-the-secret-of-eternal-youth"},"modified":"2020-10-02T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:22:42","slug":"could-a-poo-transplant-one-day-be-the-secret-of-eternal-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/could-a-poo-transplant-one-day-be-the-secret-of-eternal-youth","title":{"rendered":"Could a poo transplant one day be the secret of eternal youth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bMaF-k99Kvk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fecal transplants could one day be used as a therapy to restore cognitive function in the elderly\u2014according to new research from the University of East Anglia, the University of Florence and the Quadram Institute.<\/p>\n<p>A new study published today shows how fecal transplants from older to younger mice altered their <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/gut+microbiome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gut microbiome<\/a>, which in turn impacted their spatial learning and memory.<\/p>\n<p>The research team hope that reversing the procedure could one day see fecal transplantation used to combat cognitive decline among the elderly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fecal transplants could one day be used as a therapy to restore cognitive function in the elderly\u2014according to new research from the University of East Anglia, the University of Florence and the Quadram Institute. A new study published today shows how fecal transplants from older to younger mice altered their gut microbiome, which in turn [\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-113739","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\/113739","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=113739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}