{"id":237904,"date":"2026-05-28T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-create-supercharged-vitamin-k-that-helps-the-brain-heal-itself"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:08:24","slug":"scientists-create-supercharged-vitamin-k-that-helps-the-brain-heal-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-create-supercharged-vitamin-k-that-helps-the-brain-heal-itself","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create supercharged vitamin K that helps the brain heal itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-supercharged-vitamin-k-that-helps-the-brain-heal-itself2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons \u2014 a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s are treated. By combining vitamin K with components related to vitamin A, the researchers developed compounds that were about three times more effective at turning neural stem cells into neurons than natural vitamin K alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons \u2014 a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s are treated. By combining vitamin K with components related to vitamin A, the researchers developed compounds that were about three times more effective [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237904","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\/237904","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}