{"id":29415,"date":"2016-08-26T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/anti-aging-effects-in-mice-of-a-dietary-supplement-called-alpha-lipoic-acid"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:44:20","slug":"anti-aging-effects-in-mice-of-a-dietary-supplement-called-alpha-lipoic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/anti-aging-effects-in-mice-of-a-dietary-supplement-called-alpha-lipoic-acid","title":{"rendered":"Anti-aging effects (in mice) of a dietary supplement called alpha lipoic acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-aging-effects-in-mice-of-a-dietary-supplement-called-alpha-lipoic-acid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Shortened telomeres\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-aging-effects-in-mice-of-a-dietary-supplement-called-alpha-lipoic-acid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"241\"><b><center>Shortened telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes (credit: NIGMS)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.emory.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emory University School of Medicine<\/a> have found that the dietary supplement <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lipoic_acid\" target=\"_blank\">alpha lipoic acid (ALA)<\/a> can stimulate telomerase, the enzyme that lengthens telomeres, with positive effects in a mouse model of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atherosclerosis\" target=\"_blank\">atherosclerosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In human cells, shortened <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telomere\" target=\"_blank\">telomeres<\/a>, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, are a sign of aging and also contribute to aging.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/anti-aging-effects-in-mice-of-a-dietary-supplement-called-alpha-lipoic-acid\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/anti-aging-effects-in-mice-of-a-di...ipoic-acid<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortened telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes (credit: NIGMS) Scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found that the dietary supplement alpha lipoic acid (ALA) can stimulate telomerase, the enzyme that lengthens telomeres, with positive effects in a mouse model of atherosclerosis. In human cells, shortened telomeres, the protective caps at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29415","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\/29415","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49971,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29415\/revisions\/49971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}