{"id":59237,"date":"2025-04-13T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=59237"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:18:03","slug":"eating-this-stiffens-your-heart-and-inflames-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59237","title":{"rendered":"Eating THIS Stiffens Your Heart and Inflames Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dr_Rhonda_Patrick_On_Glucose.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Rhonda Patrick On Glucose\" width=\"1568\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dr_Rhonda_Patrick_On_Glucose.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dr_Rhonda_Patrick_On_Glucose-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dr_Rhonda_Patrick_On_Glucose-1024x511.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dr_Rhonda_Patrick_On_Glucose-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dr_Rhonda_Patrick_On_Glucose-1536x767.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The consumption of added sugars can lead to increased inflammation, which has been shown to affect mood and cognitive function. Inflammatory markers can cross the blood-brain barrier, leading to depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YW8BffeRf6E\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YW8BffeRf6E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consumption of added sugars can lead to increased inflammation, which has been shown to affect mood and cognitive function. Inflammatory markers can cross the blood-brain barrier, leading to depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YW8BffeRf6E<\/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-59237","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\/59237","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=59237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59239,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59237\/revisions\/59239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}