{"id":123789,"date":"2021-06-14T07:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/deposits-of-copper-and-magnetic-iron-found-in-alzheimers-patients-brains"},"modified":"2021-06-14T07:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:22:40","slug":"deposits-of-copper-and-magnetic-iron-found-in-alzheimers-patients-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/deposits-of-copper-and-magnetic-iron-found-in-alzheimers-patients-brains","title":{"rendered":"Deposits of Copper And Magnetic Iron Found in Alzheimers Patients Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deposits-of-copper-and-magnetic-iron-found-in-alzheimers-patients-brains3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High levels of labile iron have been linked to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer\u2019s before. Similarly, copper is another mineral typically shielded safely in a protein, yet thoroughly capable of making a mess of our brains in labile form.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Set aside every scrap of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsfhealth.org\/education\/hemoglobin-and-functions-of-iron\">iron inside a human body<\/a> and you might have enough to fashion a nail or two. <a href=\"https:\/\/ods.od.nih.gov\/factsheets\/Copper-HealthProfessional\/\">As for copper<\/a>, you\u2019d be lucky to extract just enough to make a small earring.<\/p>\n<p>Scarce as they are, these two metals are necessary for our survival, playing essential roles in human growth and metabolism. But one place we wouldn\u2019t expect to find either is clumped inside our brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>However, for people with the neurodegenerative disorder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimer-s-disease\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alzheimer's\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease, something seems to be turning these elements into microscopic ingots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High levels of labile iron have been linked to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer\u2019s before. Similarly, copper is another mineral typically shielded safely in a protein, yet thoroughly capable of making a mess of our brains in labile form. Set aside every scrap of iron inside a human body and you might have enough to fashion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123789","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\/123789","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=123789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}