{"id":7583,"date":"2017-07-29T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T17:58:27","slug":"a-tiny-part-of-the-brain-appears-to-orchestrate-the-whole-bodys-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7583","title":{"rendered":"A tiny part of the brain appears to orchestrate the whole body\u2019s aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jonathan Wosen for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">W<\/span>hy do we age? It\u2019s a seemingly simple question that nonetheless scientists don\u2019t have a great answer to. Some amount of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/01\/30\/aging-brain-games-crafts\/\">aging<\/a>\u00a0seems to be controlled by our genetic makeup, while other evidence shows that our cells have an upper limit to how many times they can divide. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/07\/26\/aging-brain-hypothalamus-mice\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--nh14LgBo1ZCDlDBA7d3IT7DOAMNap5hMfNEv-O-TG_yJg8zA0nw4zuDpiy-ZZw1qfN-QnGbszD4BX_Jw5RiKjeU3Aew&amp;_hsmi=54694838\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jonathan Wosen for STAT) Why do we age? It\u2019s a seemingly simple question that nonetheless scientists don\u2019t have a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7584,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions\/7584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}