{"id":208877,"date":"2025-03-16T22:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T03:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-taking-care-of-your-teeth-could-protect-your-heart-and-brain-health"},"modified":"2025-03-16T22:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T03:17:31","slug":"how-taking-care-of-your-teeth-could-protect-your-heart-and-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-taking-care-of-your-teeth-could-protect-your-heart-and-brain-health","title":{"rendered":"How taking care of your teeth could protect your heart and brain health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-taking-care-of-your-teeth-could-protect-your-heart-and-brain-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, research has suggested a connection between oral bacteria and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/alzheimers-disease\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>, raising concerns for those with poor dental health.<\/p>\n<p>With nearly 700 species of bacteria inhabiting the human mouth, experts say maintaining good oral hygiene could benefit both heart and brain health.<\/p>\n<p>There is growing evidence suggesting good oral health could help prevent Alzheimer\u2019s disease. One study in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nia.nih.gov\/news\/large-study-links-gum-disease-dementia\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/a> found that people who flossed regularly had a lower risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s than those who did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, research has suggested a connection between oral bacteria and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, raising concerns for those with poor dental health. With nearly 700 species of bacteria inhabiting the human mouth, experts say maintaining good oral hygiene could benefit both heart and brain health. There is growing evidence suggesting good oral health could help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208877","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\/208877","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}