{"id":116016,"date":"2020-11-18T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/human-ageing-process-biologically-reversed-in-world-first"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:22:19","slug":"human-ageing-process-biologically-reversed-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/human-ageing-process-biologically-reversed-in-world-first","title":{"rendered":"Human ageing process biologically reversed in world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-ageing-process-biologically-reversed-in-world-first.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantastic news for a change!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The ageing process has been biologically reversed for the first time by giving humans oxygen therapy in a pressurised chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Israel showed they could turn back the clock in two key areas of the body believed to be responsible for the frailty and ill-health that comes with growing older.<\/p>\n<p>As people age, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes \u2013 called telomeres \u2013 shorten, causing DNA to become damaged and cells to stop replicating. At the same time, \u201czombie\u201d senescent cells build up in the body, preventing regeneration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic news for a change! The ageing process has been biologically reversed for the first time by giving humans oxygen therapy in a pressurised chamber. Scientists in Israel showed they could turn back the clock in two key areas of the body believed to be responsible for the frailty and ill-health that comes with growing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116016","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\/116016","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}