{"id":128608,"date":"2021-10-06T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T14:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/natural-compound-in-basil-may-protect-against-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2021-10-06T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T14:22:16","slug":"natural-compound-in-basil-may-protect-against-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/natural-compound-in-basil-may-protect-against-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Natural Compound in Basil May Protect Against Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/natural-compound-in-basil-may-protect-against-alzheimers-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study is the first to discover that stimulation of the FFAR2 sensing mechanism by these microbial metabolites (SCFAs) can be beneficial in protecting brain cells against toxic accumulation of the amyloid-beta (A\u03b2) protein associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease,\u201d said principal investigator Hariom Yadav, PhD, professor of neurosurgery and brain repair at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, where he directs the USF Center for Microbiome Research.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Fenchol, a natural compound abundant in some plants including basil, can help protect the brain against Alzheimer\u2019s disease pathology, a preclinical study led by University of South Florida Health (USF Health) researchers suggests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new study published Oct. 5 in the <em>Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience<\/em>, discovered a sensing mechanism associated with the gut microbiome that explains how fenchol reduces neurotoxicity in the Alzheimer\u2019s brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur study is the first to discover that stimulation of the FFAR2 sensing mechanism by these microbial metabolites (SCFAs) can be beneficial in protecting brain cells against toxic accumulation of the amyloid-beta (A\u03b2) protein associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease,\u201d said principal investigator Hariom Yadav, PhD, professor of neurosurgery and brain repair at the USF Health Morsani [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128608","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=128608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}