{"id":90785,"date":"2019-05-16T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-processes-and-impact-of-aging"},"modified":"2019-05-16T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T16:02:44","slug":"the-processes-and-impact-of-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-processes-and-impact-of-aging","title":{"rendered":"The Processes and Impact of Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-processes-and-impact-of-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nina Khera writes about the aging processes and why she took an interest in aging research and why she thinks young people should too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aging is a series of processes in which the body\u2019s ability to perform functions gradually decreases. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/aging-explained\/\">Hallmarks of Aging<\/a> includes such things as an increase in senescent cells and a decrease in stem cells, but decreasing NAD+ and increasing free radicals matter as well. This article will cover a few root causes of aging and their total impact on humanity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senescent cells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One root cause of aging is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/aging-cellular-senescence\/\">senescent cells<\/a>. These are aged or damaged cells that normally would initiate the self-destruct sequence known as apoptosis to dispose of themselves, but, for some reason, they evade this process and stay alive in the body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/the-processes-and-impact-of-aging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina Khera writes about the aging processes and why she took an interest in aging research and why she thinks young people should too. Aging is a series of processes in which the body\u2019s ability to perform functions gradually decreases. The Hallmarks of Aging includes such things as an increase in senescent cells and a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90785","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\/90785","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=90785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}