{"id":213818,"date":"2025-05-12T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/bacteria-could-travel-from-the-nose-to-the-brain-and-trigger-alzheimers"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:13:49","slug":"bacteria-could-travel-from-the-nose-to-the-brain-and-trigger-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/bacteria-could-travel-from-the-nose-to-the-brain-and-trigger-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria could travel from the nose to the brain and trigger Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bacteria-could-travel-from-the-nose-to-the-brain-and-trigger-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Australia have found evidence that bacteria that live in the nose can make their way into the brain through nasal cavity nerves, setting off a series of events that could lead to Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The work adds to the growing body of evidence that Alzheimer\u2019s may be initially triggered through viral or bacterial infections.<\/p>\n<p><i>Chlamydia pneumoniae<\/i> is a common bacterium that, as its name suggests, is a major cause of pneumonia, as well as a range of other respiratory diseases. But worryingly, it\u2019s also been detected in the brain on occasion, indicating it could cause more insidious issues.<\/p>\n<p>For the new study, researchers at Griffith University and the Queensland University of Technology set out to investigate how <i>C. pneumoniae<\/i> might get into the brain, and whether it could cause damage once there. The team already had an inkling about how this nose-dwelling bug might make the trek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Australia have found evidence that bacteria that live in the nose can make their way into the brain through nasal cavity nerves, setting off a series of events that could lead to Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The work adds to the growing body of evidence that Alzheimer\u2019s may be initially triggered through viral or bacterial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213818","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\/213818","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}