{"id":156234,"date":"2023-01-25T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/anti-aging-gene-rewinds-heart-age-by-10-years"},"modified":"2023-01-25T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:23:42","slug":"anti-aging-gene-rewinds-heart-age-by-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/anti-aging-gene-rewinds-heart-age-by-10-years","title":{"rendered":"Anti-aging gene rewinds heart age by 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-aging-gene-rewinds-heart-age-by-10-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A gene called BPIFB4, discovered in a population of centenarians, could help to reverse the aging of human hearts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carriers of healthy mutant genes, including people in so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_zone\" target=\"_blank\">blue zones<\/a>\u201d of the world, often live to 100 years or more and remain in good health. Cardiovascular complications are also rarer in these individuals. Scientists now believe that a gene may help to keep their hearts young by protecting them against diseases linked to aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gene called BPIFB4, discovered in a population of centenarians, could help to reverse the aging of human hearts. Carriers of healthy mutant genes, including people in so-called \u201cblue zones\u201d of the world, often live to 100 years or more and remain in good health. Cardiovascular complications are also rarer in these individuals. Scientists now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156234","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\/156234","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\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}