{"id":173062,"date":"2023-09-29T11:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/saturated-fat-may-interfere-with-creating-memories-in-aged-brain"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:09:59","slug":"saturated-fat-may-interfere-with-creating-memories-in-aged-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/saturated-fat-may-interfere-with-creating-memories-in-aged-brain","title":{"rendered":"Saturated fat may interfere with creating memories in aged brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saturated-fat-may-interfere-with-creating-memories-in-aged-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research hints at a few ways fatty foods affect cells in the brain, a finding that could help explain the link between a high-fat diet and impaired memory \u2013 especially as we age.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio State University study in cell cultures found the omega-3 fatty acid DHA may help protect the brain from an unhealthy diet\u2019s effects by curbing fat-induced inflammation at the cellular source.<\/p>\n<p>Separate experiments using brain tissue from aging mice showed a high-fat diet may lead specific brain cells to overdo cell-signaling management in a way that interferes with the creation of new memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research hints at a few ways fatty foods affect cells in the brain, a finding that could help explain the link between a high-fat diet and impaired memory \u2013 especially as we age. The Ohio State University study in cell cultures found the omega-3 fatty acid DHA may help protect the brain from an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173062","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}