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Eggs have spent decades bouncing between dietary hero and villain, praised for their protein one year and vilified for their cholesterol the next. A new study may tip the scales again. Researchers who tracked nearly 40,000 older adults for more than 15 years found that people who ate eggs regularly were far less likely to …
A new eNeuro study from Augusta University explores whether cannabidiol, better known as CBD, could help interrupt that process. Using male 5XFAD mice, a widely used model of Alzheimer’s, researchers gave the animals inhaled CBD daily for four weeks and then examined how the treatment affected brain inflammation, immune signaling, and behavior… CBD appeared to …
Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline. Replenishing the brain’s natural stores of lithium can protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a paper published1 today in Nature. The paper reports that analyses of human brain tissue and a series of mouse experiments point to …
Houston, TX – Trayvion Lockridge, the man caught on video brutally beating 67-year-old Florentino Hurtado, an Alzheimer’s patient, in December 2023, has sparked outrage among conservatives after walking free on a reduced $20,000 bond—only to face new felony charges for allegedly threatening a woman with a gun on April 10, 2025. A still from the …
A financial tool that millions of Americans rely on, known as a credit score, could be hiding a sinister secret about your brain health, experts warn. A new study by the New York Federal Reserve and Georgetown University has uncovered a disturbing link between declining credit scores and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). The research, …
Alzheimer’s disease was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses, scientists have shown for the first time. Five people are believed to have developed Alzheimer’s after they were treated with a human growth hormone which inadvertently contained the seeds of dementia… “We have found that it is possible for amyloid-beta pathology to be transmitted …