{"id":165554,"date":"2023-06-11T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/boosting-one-amino-acid-might-be-the-secret-to-longer-lifespans"},"modified":"2023-06-11T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:23:50","slug":"boosting-one-amino-acid-might-be-the-secret-to-longer-lifespans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/boosting-one-amino-acid-might-be-the-secret-to-longer-lifespans","title":{"rendered":"Boosting One Amino Acid Might Be The Secret to Longer Lifespans"},"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\/dTdJQopKosw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered not only that animals age more quickly when they don\u2019t have enough of the amino acid taurine in the body, but that oral taurine supplements can delay aging and increase a healthy lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers found that taurine supplements delayed aging in worms, mice, and monkeys, and increased the healthy lifespan of middle-aged mice by up to 12 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last 25 years, scientists have been trying to find factors that not only let us live longer, but also increase health span, the time we remain healthy in our old age,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/990909\">says<\/a> biologist Vijay Yadav from Columbia University, senior author on the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered not only that animals age more quickly when they don\u2019t have enough of the amino acid taurine in the body, but that oral taurine supplements can delay aging and increase a healthy lifespan. An international team of researchers found that taurine supplements delayed aging in worms, mice, and monkeys, and increased the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165554","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}