{"id":153540,"date":"2022-12-24T21:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T03:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/one-dietary-mineral-could-prevent-cognitive-decline-study-shows"},"modified":"2022-12-24T21:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T03:22:55","slug":"one-dietary-mineral-could-prevent-cognitive-decline-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/one-dietary-mineral-could-prevent-cognitive-decline-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"One dietary mineral could prevent cognitive decline, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-dietary-mineral-could-prevent-cognitive-decline-study-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may have heard the phrase, \u201cYou are what you eat.\u201d It\u2019s no surprise that what you put into your body directly impacts how you feel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/blog\/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food-201511168626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other aspects of your health<\/a>, including cognitive function.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, diets that contain certain amounts of minerals like sodium and potassium could have an effect on brain function, especially in older adults, according to a recent study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2589791822000111#sec5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Transitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from China found diets higher in sodium were associated with a higher risk of cognitive decline and poor and deteriorated memory. On the other hand, participants in the study who had more potassium intake in their diet were associated with higher cognitive function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the phrase, \u201cYou are what you eat.\u201d It\u2019s no surprise that what you put into your body directly impacts how you feel and other aspects of your health, including cognitive function. In fact, diets that contain certain amounts of minerals like sodium and potassium could have an effect on brain function, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153540","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}