{"id":70877,"date":"2017-07-15T11:15:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/fisetin-a-compound-in-strawberries-slows-aging-in-mice"},"modified":"2017-07-15T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:15:37","slug":"fisetin-a-compound-in-strawberries-slows-aging-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/fisetin-a-compound-in-strawberries-slows-aging-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Fisetin a Compound in Strawberries Slows Aging in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fisetin-a-compound-in-strawberries-slows-aging-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting results in mice but don\u2019t jump on the bandwagon yet.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Fisetin is a naturally occurring plant polyphenol from the flavonoid group, similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/quercetin\/\">quercetin<\/a>. It is present in many plants, where it acts as a colouring agent. It is also found in many fruits and vegetables, such as strawberries, apples, persimmons, onions, and cucumbers.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been found to be a senolytic compound able to clear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/senolytics\/\">senescent cells<\/a>, at least it does in vitro studies in a petri dish[1]. The clearance of dysfunctional senescent cells is one of the repair based approaches proposed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/sens-3\/\">SENS Research Foundation<\/a> to prevent or reverse age-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before you jump on the bandwagon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We see this every time a new compound or supplement is in the news: people rush out to buy it before sufficient research has been done. We should be cautious here, and before we spend our hard-earned money on yet another supplement, we should be mindful that there is no evidence that fisetin has a senolytic effect in mice other than in cell cultures.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/fisetin\/\">http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/fisetin\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting results in mice but don\u2019t jump on the bandwagon yet. Fisetin is a naturally occurring plant polyphenol from the flavonoid group, similar to quercetin. It is present in many plants, where it acts as a colouring agent. It is also found in many fruits and vegetables, such as strawberries, apples, persimmons, onions, and cucumbers. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70877","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\/70877","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}