{"id":390571,"date":"2026-04-09T21:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390571\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:55:45","slug":"revealed-higher-levels-of-one-vitamin-in-midlife-are-associated-with-reduced-brain-marker-for-alzheimers-later-on-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390571\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Higher levels of one vitamin in midlife are associated with reduced brain marker for Alzheimer\u2019s later on, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Research carried out in the past has linked low vitamin D in adults over 70 with an increased risk of dementia. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9fe3685d-9c96-4e5f-a817-b0e9416b8a3c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Research carried out in the past has linked low vitamin D in adults over 70 with an increased risk of dementia. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">People with higher levels of vitamin D in middle age may have lower levels of a protein in the brain, which is a sign of dementia, years later, according to Irish-led research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tau protein in the brain is one of Alzheimer&#8217;s biomarkers, the team from the University of Galway said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Research carried out in the past has linked low vitamin D in adults over 70 with an increased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4593,103,61,60,446],"class_list":{"0":"post-390571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390571","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=390571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}