{"id":116347,"date":"2020-11-26T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T18:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/blood-iron-levels-could-be-key-to-slowing-ageing-gene-study-shows"},"modified":"2020-11-26T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T18:22:16","slug":"blood-iron-levels-could-be-key-to-slowing-ageing-gene-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/blood-iron-levels-could-be-key-to-slowing-ageing-gene-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Blood iron levels could be key to slowing ageing, gene study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-iron-levels-could-be-key-to-slowing-ageing-gene-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These findings [\u2026] strongly suggest that high levels of iron in the blood reduces our healthy years of life, and keeping these levels in check could prevent age-related damage.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Genes linked to ageing that could help explain why some people age at different rates to others have been identified by scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The international study using genetic data from more than a million people suggests that maintaining healthy levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/iron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">iron<\/a> in the blood could be a key to ageing better and living longer.<\/p>\n<p>The findings could accelerate the development of drugs to reduce <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/age-related+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">age-related diseases<\/a>, extend healthy years of life and increase the chances of living to old age free of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">disease<\/a>, the researchers say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These findings [\u2026] strongly suggest that high levels of iron in the blood reduces our healthy years of life, and keeping these levels in check could prevent age-related damage. Genes linked to ageing that could help explain why some people age at different rates to others have been identified by scientists. The international study using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116347","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\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}