{"id":15284,"date":"2017-02-13T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15284"},"modified":"2024-07-02T03:28:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T17:28:13","slug":"gut-bacteria-may-accelerate-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15284","title":{"rendered":"Gut bacteria may accelerate Alzheimer&#8217;s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Gut-bacteria-may-accelerate-Alzheimers-disease-Study.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15285\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Gut-bacteria-may-accelerate-Alzheimers-disease-Study-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Gut bacteria may accelerate Alzheimer's disease\" width=\"765\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bacteria in your gut may play a major role in the development of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease &#8211; the most common form of dementia, says a study that may initiate new ways for treatment and preventing the neurodegenerative disease.<br \/>\nThe researchers found that mice suffering from Alzheimer&#8217;s have a different composition of intestinal bacteria compared to mice that are healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Mice without bacteria had a significantly smaller amount of beta-amyloid plaque &#8211; lumps that form at the nerve fibers in cases of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease &#8211; in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our study is unique as it shows a direct causal link between gut bacteria and Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. It was striking that the mice which completely lacked bacteria developed much less plaque in the brain,&#8221; said Frida Fak Hallenius from the Lund University in Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bacteria in your gut may play a major role in the development of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease &#8211; the most common form of dementia, says a study that may initiate new ways for treatment and preventing the neurodegenerative disease. The researchers found that mice suffering from Alzheimer&#8217;s have a different composition of intestinal bacteria compared to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gut bacteria may accelerate Alzheimer&#8217;s disease&#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":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15284","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\/15284","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=15284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52444,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284\/revisions\/52444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}