{"id":160858,"date":"2023-03-23T14:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/a-single-enzyme-could-be-behind-some-peoples-depression-scientists-say"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T19:29:56","slug":"a-single-enzyme-could-be-behind-some-peoples-depression-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/a-single-enzyme-could-be-behind-some-peoples-depression-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"A Single Enzyme Could Be Behind Some People\u2019s Depression, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-single-enzyme-could-be-behind-some-peoples-depression-scientists-say3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a while now, we\u2019ve known there\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alterning-your-gut-bacteria-could-ease-anxiety-and-depression\">complex interplay<\/a> between our hormones, guts, and mental health, but untangling the most relevant connections within our bodies has proved challenging.<\/p>\n<p>New research has found a single enzyme that links all three, and its presence may be responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/depression\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">depression<\/a> in some women during their reproductive years.<\/p>\n<p>Wuhan University medical researcher Di Li and colleagues compared the blood serum of 91 women aged between 18 and 45 years with depression and 98 without. Incredibly, those with depression had almost half the serum levels of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Estradiol\">estradiol<\/a> \u2013 the primary form of estrogen our bodies use during our fertile years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, we\u2019ve known there\u2019s a complex interplay between our hormones, guts, and mental health, but untangling the most relevant connections within our bodies has proved challenging. New research has found a single enzyme that links all three, and its presence may be responsible for depression in some women during their reproductive years. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160858","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\/160858","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}