{"id":18498,"date":"2015-10-17T05:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/changing-the-pace-your-circadian-rhythm-can-make-you-age-faster"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:31:19","slug":"changing-the-pace-your-circadian-rhythm-can-make-you-age-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/changing-the-pace-your-circadian-rhythm-can-make-you-age-faster","title":{"rendered":"Changing The Pace: Your Circadian Rhythm Can Make You Age Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/changing-the-pace-your-circadian-rhythm-can-make-you-age-faster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all have different circadian rhythms but they slow down during aging, and we may be able to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Your body is in a state of constant flux and the circadian rhythm is its master regulator, controlling everything from sleep cycles to appetite and beyond. Jet lag is a side effect of a confused internal cycle as it adjusts to a new timetable. Shift work and irregular patterns of activity can also potentially cause some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/288310.php\">serious problems<\/a> if sustained for a long period, including raising risk of type 2 diabetes, dementia and all cause mortality.<\/p>\n<p>When researchers studied aging mice, they saw a progressive decline in levels of molecules called polyamines. These are involved with a number of processes, but particularly in cell growth and circadian rhythm. The drop in polyamines also coincided with a slowing of their circadian cycle \u2014 which increased disease risk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/changing-the-pace-your-circadian-rhythm-can-make-you-age-faster\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have different circadian rhythms but they slow down during aging, and we may be able to do something about it. Your body is in a state of constant flux and the circadian rhythm is its master regulator, controlling everything from sleep cycles to appetite and beyond. Jet lag is a side effect of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18498","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63914,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18498\/revisions\/63914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}