{"id":18651,"date":"2015-10-22T11:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/98-of-drugs-never-make-it-to-the-brain-but-this-method-could-change-that"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:29:30","slug":"98-of-drugs-never-make-it-to-the-brain-but-this-method-could-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/98-of-drugs-never-make-it-to-the-brain-but-this-method-could-change-that","title":{"rendered":"98% Of Drugs Never Make It To The Brain, But This Method Could Change That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/98-of-drugs-never-make-it-to-the-brain-but-this-method-could-change-that.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Treating the brain isn\u2019t like the rest of the body. Your blood-brain barrier shields it; filtering the blood to ensure nothing untoward makes it through. This protection is normally a good thing, but it becomes a problem if you want to deliver therapeutic drugs through it. This method could be a solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smuggling therapeutics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many diseases like Parkinson\u2019s and Alzheimer\u2019s disease are extremely difficult to treat. Only very specific molecules can make it through the brain\u2019s secure barrier, and most drugs don\u2019t make the cut. This poses a challenge when you want to treat disease inside the brain, and so efforts have been focused on finding a way to overcome this. New research has now demonstrated a way of treating Parkinson\u2019s disease with a surgical treatment that opens up a small route to bypass the barrier; essentially a smuggling hatch into your brain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/21\/getting-drugs-to-the-brain-a-new-way-of-bypassing-the-blood-brain-barrier\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treating the brain isn\u2019t like the rest of the body. Your blood-brain barrier shields it; filtering the blood to ensure nothing untoward makes it through. This protection is normally a good thing, but it becomes a problem if you want to deliver therapeutic drugs through it. This method could be a solution. Smuggling therapeutics Many [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18651","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\/18651","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18651\/revisions\/63879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}