{"id":126095,"date":"2021-08-11T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/beige-fat-indispensable-in-protecting-the-brain-from-dementia"},"modified":"2021-08-11T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:22:35","slug":"beige-fat-indispensable-in-protecting-the-brain-from-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/beige-fat-indispensable-in-protecting-the-brain-from-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Beige Fat \u201cIndispensable\u201d in Protecting the Brain From Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beige-fat-indispensable-in-protecting-the-brain-from-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pear-shaped people, whose weight is generally distributed more evenly, rather than \u201capple shaped\u201d individuals with fat clustered around their middle and often around internal organs like the liver in the abdominal cavity, are considered less at risk for cardiometabolic problems like heart disease and diabetes, as well as cognitive decline, says Stranahan, neuroscientist at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>Adipocytes, or beige fat cells, are indispensable to the anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects of subcutaneous fat, researchers say.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beige is considered a calming paint color, and scientists have new evidence that beige fat has a similar impact on the brain, bringing down the inflammation associated with the more common white fat and providing protection from dementia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They have found that beige fat cells, which are typically intermingled with white fat cells in the subcutaneous fat present on \u201cpear shaped\u201d people, mediate subcutaneous fat\u2019s brain protection, Dr. Alexis M. Stranahan and her colleagues report in the journal <em>Nature Communications<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pear-shaped people, whose weight is generally distributed more evenly, rather than \u201capple shaped\u201d individuals with fat clustered around their middle and often around internal organs like the liver in the abdominal cavity, are considered less at risk for cardiometabolic problems like heart disease and diabetes, as well as cognitive decline, says Stranahan, neuroscientist at the [\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-126095","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\/126095","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=126095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}