{"id":173318,"date":"2023-10-02T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/australian-seaweed-boosts-collagen-levels-in-human-like-skin-cells-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2023-10-02T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:27:15","slug":"australian-seaweed-boosts-collagen-levels-in-human-like-skin-cells-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/australian-seaweed-boosts-collagen-levels-in-human-like-skin-cells-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Australian Seaweed Boosts Collagen Levels in Human-Like Skin Cells in The Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-seaweed-boosts-collagen-levels-in-human-like-skin-cells-in-the-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you believe the headlines, seaweeds can do almost anything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/seaweed-may-not-be-the-climate-solution-we-hoped-for\">storing tons of carbon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/adding-seaweed-to-cattle-feed-could-reduce-methane-production-by-70\">stopping cows from belching methane<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.rser.2022.112222\">making biofuels and renewable plastics<\/a> \u2013 all while sustaining vibrant coastal ecosystems and feeding communities.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that list their potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-4360\/10\/4\/415\">wound-healing properties<\/a> and possible <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5530\/pj.2018.5.157\">anti-aging effects<\/a>, and it\u2019s no wonder the seaweed farming industry is booming.<\/p>\n<p>A new study adds to that fanfare, with lab experiments based on human-like skin cells revealing extracts from two brown seaweeds can inhibit reactions linked to skin aging and boost collagen levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe the headlines, seaweeds can do almost anything from storing tons of carbon and stopping cows from belching methane, to making biofuels and renewable plastics \u2013 all while sustaining vibrant coastal ecosystems and feeding communities. Add to that list their potential wound-healing properties and possible anti-aging effects, and it\u2019s no wonder the seaweed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173318","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}