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An 88% risk reduction is the kind of number that stops you mid-scroll, and it deserves exactly the scrutiny a number that dramatic should get before anyone rearranges their life around it. The figure comes from a real study, published…
There’s a belief so common it barely gets questioned anymore: that dementia is simply what happens if you live long enough, a roll of the genetic dice nobody can do much about. It’s the same fatalism I’ve spent two decades…
In 1924, workers at a Standard Oil plant in New Jersey began hallucinating, convulsing, and dying, poisoned by the tetraethyl lead they were adding to gasoline to stop engines from knocking. The company’s spokesman offered a memorable explanation at the…
For most families, the road to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis starts with a family doctor, not a neurologist. New data presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in London suggests that first stop is about to get a lot more reliable.…
For thirty years, serotonin has lived almost entirely in the territory of the mind. It is the chemical behind Prozac, behind mood, behind the whole modern vocabulary of chemical imbalance and pharmacological repair. Psychiatrists like myself have spent careers thinking…
Most stories about the gut microbiome want to sort its trillions of residents into two tidy camps, the good bacteria and the bad ones, heroes and villains living in the same intestinal neighborhood. A large new Swedish study complicates that…
A large new study is challenging a basic assumption behind most dementia prevention advice: that the same risk factors matter roughly the same amount everywhere. They don’t, according to researchers, and that has real implications for how prevention programs get…
One of the more unsettling facts about Alzheimer’s disease is also one of the least discussed outside research circles. Roughly 30% of people whose brains show the full pathological signature of the disease, the plaques, the tangles, all of it,…
A large new study is changing how researchers think about nitrate, a compound found in everything from spinach to bacon to tap water. The takeaway isn’t how much of it people eat. It’s where it comes from. Researchers from Edith…
Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease have always occupied separate rooms in medicine. Different specialists, different journals, different drugs, different fears. A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Boston Children’s Hospital, published in the journal Cell,…
