{"id":31442,"date":"2016-10-27T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/scientists-discover-elixir-of-youth-for-mice-and-begin-tests-on-humans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:19:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:19:17","slug":"scientists-discover-elixir-of-youth-for-mice-and-begin-tests-on-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/scientists-discover-elixir-of-youth-for-mice-and-begin-tests-on-humans","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover elixir of youth \u2014 for mice \u2014 and begin tests on humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-elixir-of-youth-for-mice-and-begin-tests-on-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in the US claim to have discovered a natural compound found in avocado, broccoli and cucumber that has \u201cremarkable anti-ageing effects in mice\u201d \u2014 and could also work on humans.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, who have started clinical trials involving a small group of people, said older mice given the compound, called NMN, in their water saw an array of beneficial effects.<\/p>\n<p>Their level of physical activity increased, bone density and muscles improved, the immune system and liver performed better, their eyesight improved and they even lost weight.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/elixir-youth-discovery-broccoli-cucumber-cabbage-mice-humans-a7383411.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/elixir-youth-disco...83411.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in the US claim to have discovered a natural compound found in avocado, broccoli and cucumber that has \u201cremarkable anti-ageing effects in mice\u201d \u2014 and could also work on humans. The researchers, who have started clinical trials involving a small group of people, said older mice given the compound, called NMN, in their water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31442","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\/31442","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59936,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31442\/revisions\/59936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}