{"id":214808,"date":"2025-05-26T21:09:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/surprise-link-between-menthol-and-alzheimers-found-in-mice"},"modified":"2025-05-26T21:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:09:55","slug":"surprise-link-between-menthol-and-alzheimers-found-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/surprise-link-between-menthol-and-alzheimers-found-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Link Between Menthol And Alzheimer\u2019s Found in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PdYKNY93rKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, scientists discovered something strange: When mice with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease inhale menthol, their cognitive abilities improve.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the chemical compound can stop some of the damage done to the brain that\u2019s usually associated with the disease.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, researchers noticed a reduction in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interleukin_1_beta\">interleukin-1-beta<\/a> (IL-1\u03b2) protein, which helps to regulate the body\u2019s inflammatory response \u2013 a response that can offer natural protection but one that leads to harm when it\u2019s not controlled properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, scientists discovered something strange: When mice with Alzheimer\u2019s disease inhale menthol, their cognitive abilities improve. It seems the chemical compound can stop some of the damage done to the brain that\u2019s usually associated with the disease. In particular, researchers noticed a reduction in the interleukin-1-beta (IL-1\u03b2) protein, which helps to regulate the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214808","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}