{"id":209093,"date":"2025-03-19T00:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/exercise-in-a-pill-brown-fat-discovery-may-extend-lifespan-and-boost-fitness"},"modified":"2025-03-19T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T05:11:18","slug":"exercise-in-a-pill-brown-fat-discovery-may-extend-lifespan-and-boost-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/exercise-in-a-pill-brown-fat-discovery-may-extend-lifespan-and-boost-fitness","title":{"rendered":"Exercise in a Pill? Brown Fat Discovery May Extend Lifespan and Boost Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exercise-in-a-pill-brown-fat-discovery-may-extend-lifespan-and-boost-fitness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rutgers researchers found that increased brown fat improves longevity and exercise capacity in mice. They aim to develop a drug that replicates these benefits in humans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rutgers Health researchers have made discoveries about brown fat that could pave the way for helping people stay physically fit as they age.<\/p>\n<p>A team from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/rutgers-university\/\">Rutgers New Jersey Medical School<\/a> found that mice lacking a specific gene developed an unusually potent form of brown fat tissue, which extended lifespan and increased exercise capacity by approximately 30%. The team is now working on a drug that could replicate these effects in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutgers researchers found that increased brown fat improves longevity and exercise capacity in mice. They aim to develop a drug that replicates these benefits in humans. Rutgers Health researchers have made discoveries about brown fat that could pave the way for helping people stay physically fit as they age. A team from Rutgers New Jersey [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209093","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\/209093","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}