{"id":204818,"date":"2025-01-29T08:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/oral-microbiome-may-influence-cognitive-decline-and-brain-health"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:23:28","slug":"oral-microbiome-may-influence-cognitive-decline-and-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/oral-microbiome-may-influence-cognitive-decline-and-brain-health","title":{"rendered":"Oral Microbiome May Influence Cognitive Decline and Brain Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oral-microbiome-may-influence-cognitive-decline-and-brain-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>PNAS Nexus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The microbial ecosystems within our mouths may affect our cognitive function as we age, according to a study. Interventions such as prebiotics, including dietary nitrate, have potential for delaying cognitive decline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 15% of older adults have mild cognitive impairment, which is the largest risk factor for the development of dementia or Alzheimer\u2019s disease. There is a known association between periodontitis\u2014gum disease\u2014and worsened cognitive function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PNAS Nexus. The microbial ecosystems within our mouths may affect our cognitive function as we age, according to a study. Interventions such as prebiotics, including dietary nitrate, have potential for delaying cognitive decline. About 15% of older adults have mild cognitive impairment, which is the largest risk factor for the development of dementia or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204818","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\/204818","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}