{"id":182175,"date":"2024-02-06T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-one-and-done-injection-to-slow-aging-new-study-in-mice-opens-the-possibility"},"modified":"2024-02-06T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:22:23","slug":"a-one-and-done-injection-to-slow-aging-new-study-in-mice-opens-the-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-one-and-done-injection-to-slow-aging-new-study-in-mice-opens-the-possibility","title":{"rendered":"A One-and-Done Injection to Slow Aging? New Study in Mice Opens the Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-one-and-done-injection-to-slow-aging-new-study-in-mice-opens-the-possibility2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A preventative anti-aging therapy seems like wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43587-023-00560-5\">a new study<\/a> led by Dr. Corina Amor Vegas at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory describes a treatment that brings the dream to life\u2014at least for mice. Given a single injection in young adulthood, they aged more slowly compared to their peers.<\/p>\n<p>By the equivalent of roughly 65 years of age in humans, the mice were slimmer, could better regulate blood sugar and insulin levels, and had lower inflammation and a more youthful metabolic profile. They even kept up their love for running, whereas untreated seniors turned into couch potatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preventative anti-aging therapy seems like wishful thinking. Yet a new study led by Dr. Corina Amor Vegas at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory describes a treatment that brings the dream to life\u2014at least for mice. Given a single injection in young adulthood, they aged more slowly compared to their peers. By the equivalent of roughly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182175","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\/182175","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}