Near future
Contact us
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • energia
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+
July 6 2022

Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine

Near future

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

No Result
View All Result

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

Read in:  Chinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanish

New study finds another key to longevity: it's in the gut

Transferring the gut bacteria from older mice to younger mice produced an increase in neurogenesis. Merit of the butyrate produced in the intestine.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
in Medicine, transhumanism
Share84Pin14Tweet39SendShare11ShareShare8
New study finds another key to longevity: it's in the gut
December 26 2019
⚪ Reads in 2 minutes
A A

Microorganisms that live in the intestine can alter the aging process. The discovery could lead to the development of food-based treatments to slow it down and increase longevity.

An NTU Singapore team has developed an important longevity study that has one key element: butyrate. Using mice, the team led by Professor Sven Pettersson NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine transplanted intestinal microbes from old mice (24 months) to young and germ-free mice (6 weeks). After eight weeks, the young mice had increased intestinal growth and neurogenesis, which is the production of neurons in the brain.

The team showed that the increase in neurogenesis is due to an increase in gut microbes that produce a specific short-chain fatty acid, called butyrate.

Butyrate and its role in the production of longevity

Butyrate is produced through the microbial fermentation of dietary fibers in the lower intestinal tract and stimulates the production of a longevity hormone called FGF21, which plays an important role in regulating the body's energy and metabolism. As we age, butyrate production decreases.

Maybe you are also interested

What the world would be like if the ravages of old age could be reversed

Coinbase CEO launches NewLimit, startup to extend human life

Senolytic antibody could fight the "disease" of aging

Can a pill that lowers body temperature make us live longer?

The study was published in the journal on November 13th Science Translational Medicine and was undertaken by researchers from Singapore, the United Kingdom and Australia.

According to the study leader Sven Petterson, Ph.D, “These are surprising and very interesting results, especially since we can mimic the neurostimulatory effect using only butyrate. Now we will try to understand if butyrate can support repair and reconstruction in situations such as stroke, spinal damage, and especially if it can slow down aging and cognitive decline ”.

butyrate
The NTU team author of the study.

These findings are exciting and raise many new open questions for both the biology of aging and microbiome research.

It is always helpful to know the ways to promote general health. This discovery offers many possibilities for i future methods of increasing longevity.

tags: longevismlongevity
Previous post

General Motors wants to remove the steering wheel from its self-driving cars

Next Post

Carapace, the superyacht that becomes submarine

COLLABORATE

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff

    archive

    Have a look here:

    two-mode vehicle
    Technology

    Bus or train? In Japan the two-mode vehicle starts

    On the road it travels with rubber tires, on the tracks it travels with iron wheels: the two-mode vehicle is ...

    Read More
    An AI creates a 'voice bank' for anyone who has to lose their voice

    An AI creates a 'voice bank' for anyone who has to lose their voice

    Plastics

    Plastic rains, still silence from the institutions

    Scientists invent the fabric that turns clothes into displays

    Scientists invent the fabric that turns clothes into displays

    suicide

    Japan appoints a "Minister of Solitude" to deal with suicides

    The daily tomorrow

    Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

    Subscribe to our newsletter

    Environment
    Architecture
    Artificial intelligence
    Gadgets
    concepts
    Design

    Staff
    Archives
    Advertising
    Privacy Policy

    Medicine
    Spazio
    Robotica
    Work
    Transportation
    energia

    To contact the FuturoProssimo editorial team, write to [email protected]

    Chinese Version
    Édition Française
    Deutsche Ausgabe
    Japanese version
    English Edition
    Edição Portuguesa
    Русское издание
    Spanish edition

    This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
    © 2021 Futuroprossimo

    No Result
    View All Result
    • Home
    • Tech
    • Health
    • Environment
    • Architecture
    • energia
    • Transportation
    • Spazio
    • AI
    • concepts
    • Gadgets
    • Italy Next
    • H+