{"id":236820,"date":"2026-05-08T22:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/one-type-of-fat-may-accelerate-brain-aging-but-scientists-say-theres-a-fix"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:40:01","slug":"one-type-of-fat-may-accelerate-brain-aging-but-scientists-say-theres-a-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/one-type-of-fat-may-accelerate-brain-aging-but-scientists-say-theres-a-fix","title":{"rendered":"One Type of Fat May Accelerate Brain Aging, But Scientists Say There\u2019s a Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-type-of-fat-may-accelerate-brain-aging-but-scientists-say-theres-a-fix.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A higher level of the fat that gathers around organs has been linked to faster brain aging in a new study, with glucose and insulin the likely mediators.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, suggests that reducing <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/diseases\/24147-visceral-fat\">visceral fat<\/a> can protect against brain atrophy.<\/p>\n<p>Like other parts of the body, the brain doesn\u2019t necessarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/humans-age-faster-at-2-sharp-peaks-study-finds\">age at a consistent rate<\/a>: wear and tear can increase or decrease, depending on numerous factors. Faster brain aging typically means a faster decline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/aging-scrambles-brain-proteins-and-diet-could-partly-reverse-it\">in mental performance<\/a>, and a higher risk of brain diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A higher level of the fat that gathers around organs has been linked to faster brain aging in a new study, with glucose and insulin the likely mediators. The study, led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, suggests that reducing visceral fat can protect against brain atrophy. Like other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236820","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=236820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}