{"id":86679,"date":"2019-01-15T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/measuring-age-using-the-bacteria-in-your-gut"},"modified":"2019-01-15T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:22:20","slug":"measuring-age-using-the-bacteria-in-your-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/measuring-age-using-the-bacteria-in-your-gut","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Age Using the Bacteria in Your Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/measuring-age-using-the-bacteria-in-your-gut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bacteria in your gut may offer an accurate way to measure your biological age, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The microbiome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that the communities of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes living in our gut, known as the microbiome, are likely involved in aging, particularly the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/microbial-burden-2\/\">chronic age-related inflammation<\/a> that accompanies it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/gut-bacteria-to-measure-age\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/gut-bacteria-to-measure-age\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bacteria in your gut may offer an accurate way to measure your biological age, according to a new study. The microbiome In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that the communities of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes living in our gut, known as the microbiome, are likely involved in aging, particularly the chronic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86679","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=86679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}