{"id":94730,"date":"2019-08-13T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-agree-on-5-foods-to-boost-brain-health-and-longevity"},"modified":"2019-08-13T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:02:27","slug":"scientists-agree-on-5-foods-to-boost-brain-health-and-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-agree-on-5-foods-to-boost-brain-health-and-longevity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Agree on 5 Foods to Boost Brain Health and Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-agree-on-5-foods-to-boost-brain-health-and-longevity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the rise of fad diets, \u201csuperfoods,\u201d and a growing range of dietary supplement choices, it\u2019s sometimes hard to know what to eat.<\/p>\n<p>This can be particularly relevant as we grow older and are trying to make the best choices to minimize the risk of health problems such as high blood pressure, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart (cardiovascular) problems.<\/p>\n<p>We now have evidence these health problems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25142458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also all affect brain function<\/a>: they increase nerve degeneration in the brain, leading to a higher risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other brain conditions including vascular dementia and Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the rise of fad diets, \u201csuperfoods,\u201d and a growing range of dietary supplement choices, it\u2019s sometimes hard to know what to eat. This can be particularly relevant as we grow older and are trying to make the best choices to minimize the risk of health problems such as high blood pressure, obesity, type 2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94730","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}