{"id":217966,"date":"2025-07-15T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/i-was-floored-by-the-data-psilocybin-shows-anti-aging-properties-in-early-study"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:08:02","slug":"i-was-floored-by-the-data-psilocybin-shows-anti-aging-properties-in-early-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/i-was-floored-by-the-data-psilocybin-shows-anti-aging-properties-in-early-study","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was floored by the data\u2019: Psilocybin shows anti-aging properties in early study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-was-floored-by-the-data-psilocybin-shows-anti-aging-properties-in-early-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, extends the lifespan of human cells, a lab study suggests. Researchers also found that the psychedelic compound slows certain hallmarks of aging in older mice while improving their fur quality.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published July 8 in the journal npj Aging, provide the first experimental evidence of psilocybin\u2019s potential anti-aging properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, extends the lifespan of human cells, a lab study suggests. Researchers also found that the psychedelic compound slows certain hallmarks of aging in older mice while improving their fur quality. The findings, published July 8 in the journal npj Aging, provide the first experimental evidence of psilocybin\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217966","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\/217966","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}