{"id":168271,"date":"2023-07-24T22:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T03:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-common-probiotic-could-boost-brain-health-in-older-adults"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T03:23:38","slug":"a-common-probiotic-could-boost-brain-health-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-common-probiotic-could-boost-brain-health-in-older-adults","title":{"rendered":"A Common Probiotic Could Boost Brain Health in Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-common-probiotic-could-boost-brain-health-in-older-adults2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s said the way to one\u2019s heart is through the stomach, but it looks like the way to a healthy brain is by dropping a deuce regularly. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/aaic.alz.org\/releases_2023\/constipation-gut-health-alzheimers-dementia-risk.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">new research presented at the Alzheimer\u2019s Association International Conference in Amsterdam this week<\/a>, chronic constipation appears to be linked to worsening cognitive abilities, likely due to an imbalance of gut bacteria causing inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>While the study has yet to be peer-reviewed, it emphasizes a link between cognition and the microbiome \u2014 microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, and fungi living rent-free in and on our bodies \u2014 that hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed. There\u2019s still a whole lot we don\u2019t know about the microbiome, but what we do know suggests these microscopic houseguests can be manipulated to improve our own health.<\/p>\n<p>To offset cognitive decline, it could be as simple as a daily probiotic, says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microbiome\/directory\/mashael-riyadh-alljumaah-m-sc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Mashael Aljumaah<\/a>, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and North Carolina State University. In findings presented Monday at the American Society for Nutrition in Boston, Aljumaah and her colleagues at UNC and Kent State University in Ohio found that for older adults, a daily probiotic containing gut-friendly <em>Lactobacillus rhamnosus<\/em> helped improve mild cognitive impairment by resetting the imbalance in gut bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s said the way to one\u2019s heart is through the stomach, but it looks like the way to a healthy brain is by dropping a deuce regularly. According to new research presented at the Alzheimer\u2019s Association International Conference in Amsterdam this week, chronic constipation appears to be linked to worsening cognitive abilities, likely due to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168271","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}