{"id":246234,"date":"2026-10-30T23:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/anti-aging-drug-boosts-brain-blood-flow-in-people-at-higher-alzheimers-risk-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:17:35","slug":"anti-aging-drug-boosts-brain-blood-flow-in-people-at-higher-alzheimers-risk-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/anti-aging-drug-boosts-brain-blood-flow-in-people-at-higher-alzheimers-risk-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Anti-aging drug boosts brain blood flow in people at higher Alzheimer\u2019s risk, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A drug commonly used to prevent organ transplant rejection increased blood flow in the brains of healthy middle-aged adults who carry a genetic variant linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicine.missouri.edu\/news\/mizzou-research-offers-hope-alzheimers-prevention?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a new University of Missouri study.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why you should care:<\/p>\n<p>The findings could help researchers identify ways to delay or prevent Alzheimer\u2019s disease in people who are genetically predisposed to developing the condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug commonly used to prevent organ transplant rejection increased blood flow in the brains of healthy middle-aged adults who carry a genetic variant linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, according to a new University of Missouri study. Why you should care: The findings could help researchers identify ways to delay or prevent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246234","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=246234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}