{"id":13061,"date":"2023-12-10T23:21:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T23:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13061"},"modified":"2024-01-01T23:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T23:26:17","slug":"why-dogs-are-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/12\/10\/why-dogs-are-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dogs Are Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12823427\/owning-cat-increase-risk-schizophrenia-toxic-parasites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New study suggests having a pet cat increases the risk of schizophrenia &#8211; experts say it could be due to toxic parasites that pets carry<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-122\/caitlin-tilley.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CAITLIN TILLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Louis Wain - Schizophrenic Cat Artist\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A7DF_3wasM4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Could owning a cat double your risk of schizophrenia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the conclusion of a new review of 17 studies by researchers from the University of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/queensland\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Queensland<\/a>, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team conducted a\u00a0meta-analysis of existing research from 11 countries, including the US and UK, published over the last 44 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They found individuals exposed to cats before the age of 25 had approximately twice the odds of developing schizophrenia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the paper, scientists pose that the link is likely due to a parasite found in pet cats called\u00a0Toxoplasma gondii, also known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12725365\/Having-CAT-make-frail-old-age-researchers-warn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">T. gondii,\u00a0<\/a>which can enter the body via a bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They say the parasite can enter the central nervous system and\u00a0affect neurotransmitters in the brain, leading to personality changes, psychotic symptoms and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12823427\/owning-cat-increase-risk-schizophrenia-toxic-parasites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Daily Mail<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Mail New study suggests having a pet cat increases the risk of schizophrenia &#8211; experts say it could be due to toxic parasites that pets carry By\u00a0CAITLIN TILLEY Could owning a cat double your risk of schizophrenia? That&#8217;s the conclusion of a new review of 17 studies by researchers from the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}