{"id":703,"date":"2012-03-07T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=703"},"modified":"2012-03-07T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:03:05","slug":"yet-another-reason-to-get-off-your-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/yet-another-reason-to-get-off-your-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another reason to get off your ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Exercise Can Change Your DNA<br \/>\nScientists discover that physical activity leads to beneficial changes in gene activity, even after a single workout.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/03\/07\/how-exercise-can-change-your-dna\/\">http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/03\/07\/how-exercise-can-change-your-dna\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More bla bla bla exercise or die horribly from preventable diseases bla bla bla.   I was a bit surprised to see that genes were being _de_ methylated as based on my (now clearly ancient) understanding of gene regulation methylation was considered mostly irreversible (methylation generally results in a gene that won&#8217;t be expressed).  To see that the methylation was reversed so quickly (within 20 minutes) was amazing.  It gives some hope to the reports of methylation changes (also now often referred to as &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epigenetics\">epigenetics<\/a>&#8216;) due to environmental factors can be reversed.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, get off your butt and get your heart rate up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Exercise Can Change Your DNA Scientists discover that physical activity leads to beneficial changes in gene activity, even after a single workout. http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/03\/07\/how-exercise-can-change-your-dna\/ More bla bla bla exercise or die horribly from preventable diseases bla bla bla. I was a bit surprised to see that genes were being _de_ methylated as based on my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/07\/yet-another-reason-to-get-off-your-ass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yet another reason to get off your ass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-science","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}