{"id":235488,"date":"2026-04-18T02:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-find-evidence-some-alzheimers-symptoms-may-begin-outside-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:08:46","slug":"scientists-find-evidence-some-alzheimers-symptoms-may-begin-outside-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-find-evidence-some-alzheimers-symptoms-may-begin-outside-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find evidence some Alzheimer\u2019s symptoms may begin outside the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-evidence-some-alzheimers-symptoms-may-begin-outside-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers used a microscopic model of human nerves and muscles to show that Alzheimer\u2019s disease directly damages peripheral nerves. This physical damage happens independently of cognitive decline and does not improve with standard medications for the illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers used a microscopic model of human nerves and muscles to show that Alzheimer\u2019s disease directly damages peripheral nerves. This physical damage happens independently of cognitive decline and does not improve with standard medications for the illness.<\/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-235488","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\/235488","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=235488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}