{"id":117019,"date":"2020-12-12T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/breakthrough-nasa-study-discovers-surprising-key-to-astronauts-health-in-space"},"modified":"2020-12-12T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T16:22:17","slug":"breakthrough-nasa-study-discovers-surprising-key-to-astronauts-health-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/breakthrough-nasa-study-discovers-surprising-key-to-astronauts-health-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough NASA Study Discovers Surprising Key to Astronauts\u2019 Health in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-nasa-study-discovers-surprising-key-to-astronauts-health-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This month, a collaboration between NASA and various research institutions pinpointed a \u201ccentral biological hub\u201d that controls health during space travel. The culprit is the cell\u2019s energy factory, the mitochondria, which breaks down in function in a way eerily similar to aging. Like shutting down power and water in a city, disruptions to the mitochondria reverberate throughout the cells and organs, potentially leading to problems with sleeping, the immune system, and more in space. The results were [published in *Cell](<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(20)31461-6).\">https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(20)31461-6).<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, a collaboration between NASA and various research institutions pinpointed a \u201ccentral biological hub\u201d that controls health during space travel. The culprit is the cell\u2019s energy factory, the mitochondria, which breaks down in function in a way eerily similar to aging. Like shutting down power and water in a city, disruptions to the mitochondria [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117019","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\/117019","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\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}