{"id":77212,"date":"2018-03-27T17:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/vegetable-compound-could-have-a-key-role-in-beeting-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2018-03-27T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:19:58","slug":"vegetable-compound-could-have-a-key-role-in-beeting-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/vegetable-compound-could-have-a-key-role-in-beeting-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable compound could have a key role in \u2018beeting\u2019 Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vegetable-compound-could-have-a-key-role-in-beeting-alzheimers-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A compound in beets that gives the vegetable its distinctive red color could eventually help slow the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain, a process that is associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Scientists say this discovery could lead to the development of drugs that could alleviate some of the long-term effects of the disease, the world\u2019s leading cause of dementia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/03\/180320084414.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/03\/180320084414.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compound in beets that gives the vegetable its distinctive red color could eventually help slow the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain, a process that is associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Scientists say this discovery could lead to the development of drugs that could alleviate some of the long-term effects of the disease, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77212","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\/77212","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\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}