{"id":84742,"date":"2018-11-14T20:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T04:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/immunity-connects-gut-bacteria-and-aging"},"modified":"2018-11-14T20:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T04:03:50","slug":"immunity-connects-gut-bacteria-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/immunity-connects-gut-bacteria-and-aging","title":{"rendered":"Immunity connects gut bacteria and aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immunity-connects-gut-bacteria-and-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPFL scientists have discovered how a dysfunction in the immune system can cause an overload of a gut bacterium. The bacterium produces excess lactic acid, which in turn triggers the production of reactive oxygen species that cause damage to cells and many age-related pathologies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018-11\/epfd-icg111218.php\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018&#45;11\/epfd-icg111218.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPFL scientists have discovered how a dysfunction in the immune system can cause an overload of a gut bacterium. The bacterium produces excess lactic acid, which in turn triggers the production of reactive oxygen species that cause damage to cells and many age-related pathologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84742","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\/84742","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}