{"id":204733,"date":"2025-01-28T12:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/mediterranean-diet-linked-to-improved-memory-via-gut-bacteria-changes"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:13:58","slug":"mediterranean-diet-linked-to-improved-memory-via-gut-bacteria-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/mediterranean-diet-linked-to-improved-memory-via-gut-bacteria-changes","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean Diet Linked to Improved Memory via Gut Bacteria Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mediterranean-diet-linked-to-improved-memory-via-gut-bacteria-changes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Tulane University study suggests the Mediterranean diet\u2019s brain-boosting benefits may work by changing the balance of bacteria in the gut.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in Gut Microbes Reports, researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine found that subjects following a Mediterranean diet developed distinctly different gut bacteria patterns compared to those eating a typical Western diet. These bacterial changes correlated with better memory and cognitive performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known that what we eat affects brain function, but this study explores how that could be happening,\u201d said lead author Rebecca Solch-Ottaiano, Ph.D., neurology research instructor at Tulane\u2019s Clinical Neuroscience Research Center. \u201cOur findings suggest that dietary choices can influence cognitive performance by reshaping the gut microbiome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Tulane University study suggests the Mediterranean diet\u2019s brain-boosting benefits may work by changing the balance of bacteria in the gut. In a study published in Gut Microbes Reports, researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine found that subjects following a Mediterranean diet developed distinctly different gut bacteria patterns compared to those eating a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204733","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\/204733","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=204733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}