{"id":167,"date":"2024-12-01T22:45:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/the-brain-microbiome-could-understanding-it-help-prevent-dementia-health-wellbeing-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T22:45:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T22:45:22","slug":"the-brain-microbiome-could-understanding-it-help-prevent-dementia-health-wellbeing-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/the-brain-microbiome-could-understanding-it-help-prevent-dementia-health-wellbeing-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia? | Health &#038; wellbeing | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It used to be widely assumed that the brain was the last bastion of sterility in the human body \u2013 it has a blood-brain barrier, for one, which microbes were thought to be too big to pass through \u2013 but it turns out that microbes flourish in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>In many \u2013 but not all \u2013 of the Alzheimer\u2019s brains, says Lathe: \u201cWe saw an overabundance of several microbes&nbsp;\u2013 the major ones are species such as Streptococcus and Staphylococcus in the bacteria, and in the yeasts it\u2019s things like Candida and Cryptococcus, which are all well known to cause diverse pathologies in humans.\u201d There was also a mysterious algae-related species, but it hasn\u2019t been studied much in relation to human health. \u201cIt could be very important, but&nbsp;we don\u2019t know anything about it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/dec\/01\/the-brain-microbiome-could-understanding-it-help-prevent-dementia\">www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/dec\/01\/the-brain-microbiome-could-understanding-it-help-prevent-dementia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be widely assumed that the brain was the last bastion of sterility in the human body \u2013 it has a blood-brain barrier, for one, which microbes were thought to be too big to pass through \u2013 but it turns out that microbes flourish in the brain. In many \u2013 but not all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}