{"id":29594,"date":"2018-10-26T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29594"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:54:19","slug":"fasting-may-boost-stem-cell-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fasting-may-boost-stem-cell-regeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fasting may boost stem cell regeneration\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/fasting-may-boost-stem-cell-regeneration\/article23778653.ece\">\u2018Fasting may boost stem cell regeneration\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 24-hour fast may reverse the age-related loss of stem cell function that regenerates new intestinal cells, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It breaks down fatty acids, not glucose<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers, including those from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S., found that fasting dramatically improves stem cells\u2019 ability to regenerate, in both aged and young mice<\/li>\n<li>In fasting mice, cells begin breaking down fatty acids instead of glucose, a change that stimulates the stem cells to become more regenerative.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers found that they could also boost regeneration with a molecule that activates the same metabolic switch.<\/li>\n<li>Such an intervention could potentially help older people recovering from gastrointestinal infections or cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy<\/li>\n<li>Pharmacological targeting of this pathway may provide a therapeutic opportunity to improve tissue homeostasis in age-associated pathologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Fasting may boost stem cell regeneration\u2019 What has happened? A 24-hour fast may reverse the age-related loss of stem cell function that regenerates new intestinal cells, according to a study. It breaks down fatty acids, not glucose Researchers, including those from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S., found that fasting dramatically improves stem&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fasting-may-boost-stem-cell-regeneration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Fasting may boost stem cell regeneration\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704776194},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}