{"id":216631,"date":"2025-06-26T01:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-high-protein-diet-improves-birds-ability-to-tolerate-infection-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:20:02","slug":"a-high-protein-diet-improves-birds-ability-to-tolerate-infection-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-high-protein-diet-improves-birds-ability-to-tolerate-infection-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"A high-protein diet improves birds\u2019 ability to tolerate infection, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-high-protein-diet-improves-birds-ability-to-tolerate-infection-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether you feed bread to ducks at the local pond or hang a bird feeder on your back porch, the food you\u2019re offering wild birds plays a role in their ability to tolerate infection. New research from the University of Arkansas has found that canaries fed a high-protein diet fared better when it came to immune function and tolerating infection than canaries fed a high-lipid (fatty) diet.<\/p>\n<p>The findings included molecular analysis of blood draws, revealing how different diets trigger the expression of different immune-related genes, both before and after <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results are exciting because of the importance of human-supplemented food in wildlife disease systems, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wild+birds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wild birds<\/a>, which are commonly provided with supplemental food via <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bird+feeders\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bird feeders<\/a>,\u201d said Erin Sauer, a first co-author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you feed bread to ducks at the local pond or hang a bird feeder on your back porch, the food you\u2019re offering wild birds plays a role in their ability to tolerate infection. New research from the University of Arkansas has found that canaries fed a high-protein diet fared better when it came to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216631","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}