{"id":50242,"date":"2024-06-15T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T02:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=50242"},"modified":"2024-06-15T22:47:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:47:22","slug":"indian-pennywort-increasing-telomere-length-and-activating-telomerase-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=50242","title":{"rendered":"Indian Pennywort: Increasing Telomere Length and Activating Telomerase Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the very recent study proving that SARS-CoV-2 and its Spike Protein reduce Telomere length, I found it necessary to search for effective, natural therapeutics to ameliorate this condition. After much searching, Nature does, indeed, provide such a therapeutic. It is in the form of an herb known as\u00a0<em>Centella asiatica<\/em>, or, Indian Pennywort aka Gotu Kola.<\/p>\n<p><em>Centella asiatica<\/em>\u00a0(CA) is a very important medicinal herb used in the orient[4], which is also becoming popular in the West[5]. Commonly known as mandukparni or Indian pennywort or jalbrahmi, it has been used as a medicine in the Ayurvedic tradition of India for thousands of years and listed in the historic \u2018Sushruta Samhita\u2019, an ancient Indian medical text[6,7]. The herb is also used by the people of Java and other Indonesian islands. In China, known as gotu kola, it is one of the reported \u201cmiracle elixirs of life\u201d known over 2000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wmcresearch.substack.com\/p\/friday-hope-indian-pennywort-increasing\">https:\/\/wmcresearch.substack.com\/p\/friday-hope-indian-pennywort-increasing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the very recent study proving that SARS-CoV-2 and its Spike Protein reduce Telomere length, I found it necessary to search for effective, natural therapeutics to ameliorate this condition. After much searching, Nature does, indeed, provide such a therapeutic. It is in the form of an herb known as\u00a0Centella asiatica, or, Indian Pennywort aka Gotu &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=50242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indian Pennywort: Increasing Telomere Length and Activating Telomerase Activity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50245,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50242\/revisions\/50245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}