{"id":122317,"date":"2021-05-06T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/something-is-frizzling-up-the-brains-of-old-white-guys"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:22:31","slug":"something-is-frizzling-up-the-brains-of-old-white-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/something-is-frizzling-up-the-brains-of-old-white-guys","title":{"rendered":"Something Is Frizzling Up the Brains of Old White Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/something-is-frizzling-up-the-brains-of-old-white-guys2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work confirms that there is a link between air pollution and how well the aging brain works,\u201d senior study author and Columbia University researcher Andrea Baccarelli told The Guardian. \u201cThese shorter-term effects are reversible: when air pollution clears, our brain reboots and starts working back to its original level. However, multiple occurrences of these higher exposures cause permanent damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Thankfully, it\u2019s reversible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis work confirms that there is a link between air pollution and how well the aging brain works,\u201d senior study author and Columbia University researcher Andrea Baccarelli told The Guardian. \u201cThese shorter-term effects are reversible: when air pollution clears, our brain reboots and starts working back to its original level. However, multiple occurrences of these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122317","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}