{"id":131995,"date":"2021-12-08T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/blood-from-marathoner-mice-boosts-brain-function-in-their-couch-potato-counterparts"},"modified":"2021-12-08T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T19:22:32","slug":"blood-from-marathoner-mice-boosts-brain-function-in-their-couch-potato-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/blood-from-marathoner-mice-boosts-brain-function-in-their-couch-potato-counterparts","title":{"rendered":"Blood from marathoner mice boosts brain function in their couch-potato counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-from-marathoner-mice-boosts-brain-function-in-their-couch-potato-counterparts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physical exercise is great for a mouse\u2019s brain, and for yours. Numerous studies conducted in mice, humans and laboratory glassware have made this clear. Now, a new study shows it\u2019s possible to transfer the brain benefits enjoyed by marathon-running mice to their couch-potato peers.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford School of Medicine researchers have shown that blood from young adult mice that are getting lots of exercise benefits the brains of same-aged, sedentary mice. A single protein in the blood of exercising mice seems largely responsible for that benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery could open the door to treatments that\u2014by taming <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> inflammation in people who don\u2019t get much exercise\u2014lower their risk of neurodegenerative disease or slow its progression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical exercise is great for a mouse\u2019s brain, and for yours. Numerous studies conducted in mice, humans and laboratory glassware have made this clear. Now, a new study shows it\u2019s possible to transfer the brain benefits enjoyed by marathon-running mice to their couch-potato peers. Stanford School of Medicine researchers have shown that blood from young [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131995","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\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}