{"id":238434,"date":"2026-06-05T18:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/location-of-body-fat-linked-to-speed-of-brain-aging"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:37:38","slug":"location-of-body-fat-linked-to-speed-of-brain-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/location-of-body-fat-linked-to-speed-of-brain-aging","title":{"rendered":"Location of Body Fat Linked to Speed of Brain Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/location-of-body-fat-linked-to-speed-of-brain-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where fat is distributed across the body\u2014not merely the total amount\u2014significantly and independently influences brain structure, brain function, and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults. This new study was published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s44220-025-00501-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature Mental Health<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where fat is distributed across the body\u2014not merely the total amount\u2014significantly and independently influences brain structure, brain function, and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults. This new study was published in Nature Mental Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238434","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}