{"id":110331,"date":"2020-07-22T17:28:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T00:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/love-hormone-oxytocin-may-reverse-brain-damage-in-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:28:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T00:28:30","slug":"love-hormone-oxytocin-may-reverse-brain-damage-in-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/love-hormone-oxytocin-may-reverse-brain-damage-in-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Love hormone\u2019 oxytocin may reverse brain damage in Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/love-hormone-oxytocin-may-reverse-brain-damage-in-alzheimers-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>TOKYO<\/b> \u2013 Although scientists know many of the underlying symptoms which trigger Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a cure remains elusive. Now, a new study suggests that oxytocin, a hormone best known for promoting feelings of love and wellbeing, may reverse some of the damage the degenerative illness causes.<\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease is a progressive brain disease causing the continuous deterioration of mental functions. Its primary symptoms include severely impaired thinking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/silent-seizures-memory-loss-alzheimers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">memory loss<\/a>, and confusion.<\/p>\n<p>One of the primary culprits in Alzheimer\u2019s is a protein known as amyloid \u03b2 (A\u03b2). Researchers say A\u03b2 clumps together to form plaques around neurons in the brain. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/salbutamol-common-asthma-drug-potential-alzheimers-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plaque build-ups<\/a> disrupt normal neuron function and triggers the degeneration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2013 Although scientists know many of the underlying symptoms which trigger Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a cure remains elusive. Now, a new study suggests that oxytocin, a hormone best known for promoting feelings of love and wellbeing, may reverse some of the damage the degenerative illness causes. Alzheimer\u2019s disease is a progressive brain disease causing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}