{"id":236970,"date":"2026-05-12T02:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/how-intestinal-aging-encourages-harmful-bacteria"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:42:42","slug":"how-intestinal-aging-encourages-harmful-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/how-intestinal-aging-encourages-harmful-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"How Intestinal Aging Encourages Harmful Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-intestinal-aging-encourages-harmful-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <i>Aging Cell<\/i>, researchers have elucidated <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/acel.70533\">the relationship between intestinal aging and age-related changes to the gut microbiome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><b>Two interdependent biologies<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The human gut works through the interaction of two entirely different sets of cells. The first is the body\u2019s actual cells, including the intestinal barrier between the gut and the rest of the body, various types of ordinary immune cells, and Peyer\u2019s patches with follicle-associated epithelium (FAE) areas that contain microfold cells (M cells), which perform crucial immunoregulatory tasks [1]. The second is the gut microbiome, the various types of bacteria that help us digest food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Aging Cell, researchers have elucidated the relationship between intestinal aging and age-related changes to the gut microbiome. Two interdependent biologies The human gut works through the interaction of two entirely different sets of cells. The first is the body\u2019s actual cells, including the intestinal barrier between the gut and the rest of the body, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236970","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}