{"id":187320,"date":"2024-04-13T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T21:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/fresh-mitochondria-as-a-parkinsons-treatment"},"modified":"2024-04-13T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T21:24:26","slug":"fresh-mitochondria-as-a-parkinsons-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/fresh-mitochondria-as-a-parkinsons-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Mitochondria as a Parkinson\u2019s Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fresh-mitochondria-as-a-parkinsons-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have tested a novel method of providing cells with healthy mitochondria to <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38580511\/\">fight Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/a> [1].<\/p>\n<p>Parkinson\u2019s disease is the second-most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder, and it affects 10 million people worldwide. The disease is age-related, as its prevalence rises rapidly in people older than 65, although some people are diagnosed much earlier. Parkinson\u2019s disease is characterized by both motor and mental problems: tremor, rigidity (stiffness), and slowness of movement along with memory and thinking deficits.<\/p>\n<p>Parkinson\u2019s disease is caused by the loss of dopamine-producing (dopaminergic) neurons in a brain region called the substantia nigra. Therapeutic options are limited, and some of the existing ones cause nasty side effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have tested a novel method of providing cells with healthy mitochondria to fight Parkinson\u2019s disease [1]. Parkinson\u2019s disease is the second-most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder, and it affects 10 million people worldwide. The disease is age-related, as its prevalence rises rapidly in people older than 65, although some people are diagnosed much earlier. Parkinson\u2019s disease [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187320","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=187320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}