{"id":198117,"date":"2024-10-22T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/are-telomeres-really-the-key-to-living-longer-youthful-lives"},"modified":"2024-10-22T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:23:02","slug":"are-telomeres-really-the-key-to-living-longer-youthful-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/are-telomeres-really-the-key-to-living-longer-youthful-lives","title":{"rendered":"Are telomeres really the key to living longer, youthful lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-telomeres-really-the-key-to-living-longer-youthful-lives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Canadians brace for \u201cvitamin D winter\u201d\u2014months when the sun\u2019s angle is too low to produce the vitamin in the skin\u2014a McGill University study explains why vitamin D deficiency early in life is associated with a higher risk of autoimmune diseases.<\/p>\n<p>During childhood, the thymus helps train <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune cells<\/a> to distinguish between the body\u2019s own tissues and harmful invaders. A vitamin D deficiency at that stage of life causes the thymus to age more quickly, the researchers discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adm9582\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Canadians brace for \u201cvitamin D winter\u201d\u2014months when the sun\u2019s angle is too low to produce the vitamin in the skin\u2014a McGill University study explains why vitamin D deficiency early in life is associated with a higher risk of autoimmune diseases. During childhood, the thymus helps train immune cells to distinguish between the body\u2019s own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198117","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\/198117","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\/722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}