{"id":22090,"date":"2016-02-14T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/hunger-hormone-slows-aging-in-mice"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:23:56","slug":"hunger-hormone-slows-aging-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/hunger-hormone-slows-aging-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Hormone Slows Aging in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hunger-hormone-slows-aging-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" alt=\"\" height=\"174\" src=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"310\" \/><br \/> WIKIPEDIA, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Preproghrelin_1P7X.png\" target='_blank'>AYACOP<\/a> Boosting levels of ghrelin, a hormone involved in hunger, keeps aging-related declines at bay in mice, according to a study published yesterday (February 2) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/mp\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/mp2015220a.html#fig3\" target='_blank'><em>Molecular Psychiatry<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The authors gave mice a traditional Japanese medicine called rikkunshito or an extract from rikkunshito to stimulate hormone production. In three different mouse lines\u2014two with shortened lifespans and another with a normal lifespan\u2014the treatment resulted in the animals living longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings suggest that the elevated endogenous ghrelin signaling has an important role in preventing aging-related premature death,\u201d Akio Inui of Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences and colleagues wrote in their report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/45238\/title\/Hunger-Hormone-Slows-Aging-in-Mice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIKIPEDIA, AYACOP Boosting levels of ghrelin, a hormone involved in hunger, keeps aging-related declines at bay in mice, according to a study published yesterday (February 2) in Molecular Psychiatry. The authors gave mice a traditional Japanese medicine called rikkunshito or an extract from rikkunshito to stimulate hormone production. In three different mouse lines\u2014two with shortened [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22090","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\/22090","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\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51028,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions\/51028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}