{"id":1450,"date":"2023-06-22T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:42:27","slug":"boston-globe-cracking-an-intriguing-secret-of-centenarians-why-so-few-are-ravaged-by-alzheimers-disease-may-6-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/2023\/06\/22\/boston-globe-cracking-an-intriguing-secret-of-centenarians-why-so-few-are-ravaged-by-alzheimers-disease-may-6-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe &#8211; Cracking an intriguing secret of centenarians: Why so few are ravaged by Alzheimer\u2019s disease &#8211; May 6, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can learn why these people delay or escape Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and use that to come up with drugs to combat it much earlier in a person\u2019s life, so they don\u2019t get the disease,\u201d said Dr. Thomas Perls, a professor at Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine and lead researcher of a new study on centenarians and Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/files\/2023\/05\/Cracking-an-intriguing-secret-of-centenarians_-Why-so-few-are-ravaged-by-Alzheimer%E2%80%99s-disease-The-Boston-Globe.pdf\">here<\/a> to read the full article. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fiu8Bttr5AU\">here<\/a> to watch video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/centenarian\/files\/2023\/06\/tom-herlda-449x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/files\/2023\/06\/tom-herlda-449x300.png 449w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/files\/2023\/06\/tom-herlda.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can learn why these people delay or escape Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and use that to come up with drugs to combat it much earlier in a person\u2019s life, so they don\u2019t get the disease,\u201d said Dr. Thomas Perls, a professor at Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine and lead researcher of a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21744,"featured_media":1377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/centenarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}