{"id":135569,"date":"2022-02-13T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/we-just-got-closer-to-finding-a-link-between-alzheimers-and-circadian-rhythms"},"modified":"2022-02-13T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T00:23:21","slug":"we-just-got-closer-to-finding-a-link-between-alzheimers-and-circadian-rhythms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/we-just-got-closer-to-finding-a-link-between-alzheimers-and-circadian-rhythms","title":{"rendered":"We Just Got Closer to Finding a Link Between Alzheimer\u2019s And Circadian Rhythms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-just-got-closer-to-finding-a-link-between-alzheimers-and-circadian-rhythms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimer-s-disease\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alzheimer's\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease is diagnosed, once-trusty proteins start to knot together in the brain in a process that may be hastened by poor sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists have uncovered a possible mechanism linking disruptions in circadian rhythms and the build-up of proteins associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, by studying the rhythmic operation of immune cells and finding the molecular \u2018timers\u2019 that control them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circadian_rhythm\">Circadian rhythms<\/a> are the daily rhythms of bodily functions which are tied to our natural body clock, respond to light exposure, and govern our sleep-wake cycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Alzheimer\u2019s disease is diagnosed, once-trusty proteins start to knot together in the brain in a process that may be hastened by poor sleep. Now, scientists have uncovered a possible mechanism linking disruptions in circadian rhythms and the build-up of proteins associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, by studying the rhythmic operation of immune cells and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135569","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\/135569","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}