{"id":99779,"date":"2026-07-09T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=99779"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:30:29","slug":"your-gut-bacteria-may-be-influencing-your-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_09_2026\/your-gut-bacteria-may-be-influencing-your-blood-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Your Gut Bacteria May be Influencing Your Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arturo Grano de Oro, a Ph.D. candidate in UToledo&#8217;s College of Medicine and Life Sciences, explains his research into how shikimic acid can relax blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a title=\"Original URL:\nhttps:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/a-e\/culture\/2026\/07\/06\/your-gut-bacteria-may-be-influencing-your-blood-pressure\/stories\/20260706068\n\nClick to follow link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.toledoblade.com%2Fa-e%2Fculture%2F2026%2F07%2F06%2Fyour-gut-bacteria-may-be-influencing-your-blood-pressure%2Fstories%2F20260706068&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJonathan.Monk%40UToledo.Edu%7Cd6ee9a7ca2b14be38fac08deddc1c358%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C639192022336418740%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=4z2tmjykjwl%2FLzK%2BO3%2BcGS9zIrvSjHfrSNxR6ReC%2Fa0%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"b20ad685-1680-432b-8d7f-49a9e0816162\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 62, 126)\"><b><u>Your Gut Bacteria May be Influencing Your Blood Pressure<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arturo Grano de Oro, a Ph.D. candidate in UToledo&#8217;s College of Medicine and Life Sciences, explains his research into how shikimic acid can relax blood vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[81],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99780,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99779\/revisions\/99780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}