{"id":153330,"date":"2022-12-20T19:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-protective-probiotic-for-als-found"},"modified":"2022-12-20T19:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:23:45","slug":"a-protective-probiotic-for-als-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-protective-probiotic-for-als-found","title":{"rendered":"A protective probiotic for ALS found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-protective-probiotic-for-als-found2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A probiotic bacterium called Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 prevents neurodegeneration in the C. elegans worm, an animal model used to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the finding of a new study at Canada\u2019s CHUM Research Center (CRCHUM) led by Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al neuroscience professor Alex Parker and published in the journal Communications Biology.<\/p>\n<p>He and his team suggest that the disruption of lipid metabolism contributes to this cerebral degeneration, and show that the neuroprotection provided by HA-114, a non-commercial probiotic, is unique compared to other strains of the same bacterial family tested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A probiotic bacterium called Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 prevents neurodegeneration in the C. elegans worm, an animal model used to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). That\u2019s the finding of a new study at Canada\u2019s CHUM Research Center (CRCHUM) led by Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al neuroscience professor Alex Parker and published in the journal Communications Biology. He and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153330","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}