{"id":236548,"date":"2026-05-05T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/man-destined-to-get-alzheimers-saved-by-accidental-heat-therapy"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:07:48","slug":"man-destined-to-get-alzheimers-saved-by-accidental-heat-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/man-destined-to-get-alzheimers-saved-by-accidental-heat-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Man destined to get Alzheimer\u2019s saved by accidental heat therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-destined-to-get-alzheimers-saved-by-accidental-heat-therapy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doug Whitney has a genetic mutation that means he should have developed Alzheimer\u2019s disease decades ago, but his long-term work in hot engine rooms may have protected him in a similar way to sauna therapy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Whitney has a genetic mutation that means he should have developed Alzheimer\u2019s disease decades ago, but his long-term work in hot engine rooms may have protected him in a similar way to sauna therapy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236548","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=236548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}