{"id":213795,"date":"2025-05-11T17:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/motherhood-linked-to-enduring-brain-changes-which-might-offer-protective-benefits"},"modified":"2025-05-11T17:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T22:11:50","slug":"motherhood-linked-to-enduring-brain-changes-which-might-offer-protective-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/motherhood-linked-to-enduring-brain-changes-which-might-offer-protective-benefits","title":{"rendered":"Motherhood linked to enduring brain changes, which might offer protective benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/motherhood-linked-to-enduring-brain-changes-which-might-offer-protective-benefits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Motherhood appears to lead to long-lasting increases in gray matter density in the brain, particularly in cognitive and visual areas, which may protect against aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motherhood appears to lead to long-lasting increases in gray matter density in the brain, particularly in cognitive and visual areas, which may protect against aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213795","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}