{"id":247062,"date":"2026-11-11T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/could-a-few-bad-dietary-choices-worsen-your-next-immune-response"},"modified":"2026-11-11T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:06:07","slug":"could-a-few-bad-dietary-choices-worsen-your-next-immune-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/could-a-few-bad-dietary-choices-worsen-your-next-immune-response","title":{"rendered":"Could a few bad dietary choices worsen your next immune response?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists have long known that diet shapes the immune system. Now, a UC San Francisco team has found that even a brief dietary change can substantially change how the body responds to skin irritation, at least in mice.<\/p>\n<p>When scientists fed mice a high-fat diet for just a few days, the mice had a much worse reaction to an irritating cream. And the skin stayed on alert even after the mice returned to a low-fat diet and the inflammation cleared, responding more strongly the next time it was exposed to the cream.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest that short-term diet may have just as much an effect as body weight when it comes to inflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long known that diet shapes the immune system. Now, a UC San Francisco team has found that even a brief dietary change can substantially change how the body responds to skin irritation, at least in mice. When scientists fed mice a high-fat diet for just a few days, the mice had a much [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247062","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}