{"id":322375,"date":"2026-02-28T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322375\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:24:07","slug":"why-exercise-your-liver-might-be-your-brains-secret-protectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/322375\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Exercise &#038; Your Liver Might Be Your Brain&#8217;s Secret Protectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most important organ connected to your cognitive health may not just be your brain. New research from UC San Francisco suggests that when it comes to brain health, we&#8217;ve been overlooking a surprising organ: your liver. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(26)00111-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS009286742600111X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(26)00111-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS009286742600111X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" data-citation-link=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study published in Cell,<\/a><a href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"1\">1<\/a> exercise triggers your liver to release a protective enzyme that travels to your brain and repairs damage. So, your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/a-walk-a-day-might-keep-cancer-away-new-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/a-walk-a-day-might-keep-cancer-away-new-study-finds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">daily walk<\/a> is doing more than stretching your legs and boosting your step count; you&#8217;re also caring for your cognitive health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most important organ connected to your cognitive health may not just be your brain. New research from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[84,499,103,2767,61,60,9571],"class_list":["post-322375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-brain","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-healthy-aging","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}