{"id":74136,"date":"2017-12-03T02:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T10:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/researchers-link-human-microbiome-with-ridiculously-healthy-aging-in-centenarians"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:00:44","slug":"researchers-link-human-microbiome-with-ridiculously-healthy-aging-in-centenarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/researchers-link-human-microbiome-with-ridiculously-healthy-aging-in-centenarians","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Link Human Microbiome With \u201cRidiculously Healthy\u201d Aging in Centenarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-link-human-microbiome-with-ridiculously-healthy-aging-in-centenarians.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: Microbiome study of centenarians shows that \u2018ridiculously healthy\u2019 elderly have the same gut bacteria composition as healthy 30 year-olds. Can a more robust <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/video-bacteria-rule-body-microbiome-equals-healthy-immune-system\/\">microbiome<\/a> lead to the longer healthier life enjoyed by centenarians, or is it the other way around? [This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+LongevityFacts\">Google+<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/longevityfacts\/\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/redd.it\/77bpac\">Reddit<\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman<\/a>. This article was updated Dec. 2, 2017]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A recent study found that centenarians have the same microbiome as 30-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most extensive studies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/video-bacteria-rule-body-microbiome-equals-healthy-immune-system\/\">human microbiome<\/a> to date, an international group of researchers linked a healthy gut with \u201cridiculously healthy\u201d elderly known as centenarians. This important study was conducted by the China-Canada Institute (CCI), a collaboration of <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/geroscientist-aim-add-years-lives-geroscience\/\">geroscientists<\/a> from the Lawson Health Research Institute, Western University, and Tianyi Health Science Institute in China. The researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/msphere.asm.org\/content\/2\/5\/e00327-17\">published their study<\/a> titled \u201cThe Gut Microbiota of Healthy Aged Chinese Is Similar to That of the Healthy Young,\u201d in the journal mSphere.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/centenarians-microbiome-researchers-link-human-gut-ridiculously-healthy-aging\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/centenarians-microbiome-researcher...thy-aging\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Microbiome study of centenarians shows that \u2018ridiculously healthy\u2019 elderly have the same gut bacteria composition as healthy 30 year-olds. Can a more robust microbiome lead to the longer healthier life enjoyed by centenarians, or is it the other way around? [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts, follow us on Google+ | Facebook | Reddit. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74136","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74231,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74136\/revisions\/74231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}