{"id":165549,"date":"2023-06-11T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-witness-patients-brains-de-aging-after-changing-their-diet"},"modified":"2023-06-11T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:22:33","slug":"scientists-witness-patients-brains-de-aging-after-changing-their-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-witness-patients-brains-de-aging-after-changing-their-diet","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Witness Patients\u2019 Brains \u2018De-Aging\u2019 After Changing Their Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-witness-patients-brains-de-aging-after-changing-their-diet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Switching to a diet full of fresh veggies and low in processed foods could do wonders for your brain\u2019s biological age, <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/83604\">new research<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p>According to the international team of researchers who ran the study, eating a Mediterranean diet rich in vegetables, seafood, and whole grains appears to slow the signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.nicl.2022.102949\">accelerated brain aging typically seen in obesity<\/a> with as little as 1 percent loss in body weight.<\/p>\n<p>Brain scans taken after 18 months showed the participants\u2019 brain age appearing almost 9 months younger than expected, compared to estimates of their brain\u2019s chronological age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switching to a diet full of fresh veggies and low in processed foods could do wonders for your brain\u2019s biological age, new research shows. According to the international team of researchers who ran the study, eating a Mediterranean diet rich in vegetables, seafood, and whole grains appears to slow the signs of accelerated brain aging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165549","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=165549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}