{"id":197445,"date":"2024-10-11T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/higher-levels-of-leptin-indicate-brain-protection-against-late-life-dementia"},"modified":"2024-10-11T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:26:31","slug":"higher-levels-of-leptin-indicate-brain-protection-against-late-life-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/higher-levels-of-leptin-indicate-brain-protection-against-late-life-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Higher Levels of Leptin indicate Brain Protection against Late-life Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/higher-levels-of-leptin-indicate-brain-protection-against-late-life-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weight-maintaining hormone key to brain-signal transmission. A study more closely links obesity to dementia, finding that leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal body weight, is associated with better signal-transmitting brain white matter in middle-aged adults.<\/p>\n<p>New research is more closely linking obesity to dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Higher levels of leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal body weight, is associated with better signal-transmitting brain white matter in middle-aged adults, according to a study by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight-maintaining hormone key to brain-signal transmission. A study more closely links obesity to dementia, finding that leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal body weight, is associated with better signal-transmitting brain white matter in middle-aged adults. New research is more closely linking obesity to dementia. Higher levels of leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197445","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\/197445","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}