{"id":92230,"date":"2019-06-17T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/pomegranate-compound-with-anti-aging-effects-passes-human-trial"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:22:52","slug":"pomegranate-compound-with-anti-aging-effects-passes-human-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/pomegranate-compound-with-anti-aging-effects-passes-human-trial","title":{"rendered":"Pomegranate compound with anti-aging effects passes human trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pomegranate-compound-with-anti-aging-effects-passes-human-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Urolithin A, a metabolite of biomolecules found in pomegranates and other fruits, could help slow certain aging processes. EPFL spin-off Amazentis, in conjunction with EPFL and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, has published a paper in the journal <i>Nature Metabolism<\/i> outlining the results of their clinical trial.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fact of life that skeletal muscles begin to lose strength and mass once a person reaches the age of 50. A recent clinical trial involving two EPFL entities\u2014spin-off Amazentis and the Laboratory of Integrative Systems Physiology (LISP) \u2013 showed that urolithin A, a compound derived from biomolecules found in fruits such as pomegranates, could slow down this process by improving the functioning of mitochondria\u2014the cells\u2019 powerhouses. A joint paper presenting the results of the trial, published today in <i>Nature Metabolism<\/i>, also demonstrates that ingesting the compound poses no risk to human health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urolithin A, a metabolite of biomolecules found in pomegranates and other fruits, could help slow certain aging processes. EPFL spin-off Amazentis, in conjunction with EPFL and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, has published a paper in the journal Nature Metabolism outlining the results of their clinical trial. It is a fact of life that skeletal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92230","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\/92230","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}