{"id":75279,"date":"2018-01-15T03:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/how-free-radicals-damage-our-bodies"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:01:10","slug":"how-free-radicals-damage-our-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/how-free-radicals-damage-our-bodies","title":{"rendered":"How Free Radicals Damage Our Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-free-radicals-damage-our-bodies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free radicals are costly.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Summary: Here\u2019s what researchers have discovered about stopping the destruction caused by <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/mitochondrial-free-radical-theory-aging-killing-ourselves-with-antioxidants-repairing-our-mitochondrial-dna-part2\/\">free radicals<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/dna-repair-dna-damage-theory-aging-how-our-dna-kills-us\/\">DNA damage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/macromolecular-damage-aging-prematurely-part1-autophagy-series\/\">macromolecular damage<\/a>, and damage to <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/thanks-gene-thieves-alien-dna-mitochondria\/\">mitochondrial DNA<\/a>. [This article first appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">website <a href=\"http:\/\/LongevityFacts.com\">LongevityFacts.com<\/a><\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a> ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scientists widely believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/dna-repair-dna-damage-theory-aging-how-our-dna-kills-us\/\">DNA damage<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/macromolecular-damage-aging-prematurely-part1-autophagy-series\/\">macromolecular damage<\/a> caused by<a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/mitochondrial-free-radical-theory-aging-killing-ourselves-with-antioxidants-repairing-our-mitochondrial-dna-part2\/\"> free radicals<\/a> generated by our <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/thanks-gene-thieves-alien-dna-mitochondria\/\">mitochondria<\/a> is the principle cause of aging.<\/p>\n<p>However, they may have found a way to stop it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/free-radicals-damage-bodies-cause-dna-damage-calorie-restriction\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/free-radicals-damage-bodies-cause-...striction\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free radicals are costly. Summary: Here\u2019s what researchers have discovered about stopping the destruction caused by free radicals, including DNA damage, macromolecular damage, and damage to mitochondrial DNA. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ] Scientists widely believe that DNA damage and macromolecular damage caused by free radicals generated by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75279","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\/75279","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=75279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75340,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75279\/revisions\/75340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}