{"id":207703,"date":"2025-03-03T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/aging-brains-have-a-sugar-problem-and-stanford-scientists-may-have-found-a-fix"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T22:14:09","slug":"aging-brains-have-a-sugar-problem-and-stanford-scientists-may-have-found-a-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/aging-brains-have-a-sugar-problem-and-stanford-scientists-may-have-found-a-fix","title":{"rendered":"Aging Brains Have a Sugar Problem \u2014 And Stanford Scientists May Have Found a Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aging-brains-have-a-sugar-problem-and-stanford-scientists-may-have-found-a-fix.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aging depletes the brain\u2019s protective sugar shield, weakening defenses and fueling cognitive decline, but restoring key sugars may reverse these effects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What if a critical piece of the puzzle of brain aging has been hiding in plain sight? While neuroscience has traditionally focused on proteins and DNA<\/p>\n<p>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person\u2019s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aging depletes the brain\u2019s protective sugar shield, weakening defenses and fueling cognitive decline, but restoring key sugars may reverse these effects. What if a critical piece of the puzzle of brain aging has been hiding in plain sight? While neuroscience has traditionally focused on proteins and DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207703","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}