{"id":223161,"date":"2025-10-09T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/rethinking-alzheimers-why-this-common-gene-variant-is-bad-for-your-brain"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:12:19","slug":"rethinking-alzheimers-why-this-common-gene-variant-is-bad-for-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/rethinking-alzheimers-why-this-common-gene-variant-is-bad-for-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Alzheimer\u2019s: Why this common gene variant is bad for your brain"},"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\/TvnhWQbz5HI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The suspected causes of Alzheimer\u2019s disease are diverse, and its cures are, today, nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s all but certain is that many who today have the mental chops to wade through a detailed article about the disorder\u2019s drivers and demographics will nevertheless succumb to it someday.<\/p>\n<p>With no cure available, despite numerous attempts to find one, researchers are looking down new roads for treatments. A recent discovery by Stanford Medicine neurologist Mike Greicius, MD, may help clear one of those roads for faster passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspected causes of Alzheimer\u2019s disease are diverse, and its cures are, today, nonexistent. What\u2019s all but certain is that many who today have the mental chops to wade through a detailed article about the disorder\u2019s drivers and demographics will nevertheless succumb to it someday. With no cure available, despite numerous attempts to find one, [\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-223161","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\/223161","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=223161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}