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Aleyan@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

An Alzheimer’s breakthrough 10 years in the making

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An Alzheimer’s breakthrough 10 years in the making

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Aleyan@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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An Alzheimer’s breakthrough 10 years in the making — Harvard Gazette
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The findings mark a potentially major leap in understanding a disease that affects more than 50 million people worldwide.
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    Isn’t lithium already used to treat bipolar disorder? I don’t know that it’s this lithium orotate they are talking about, but it feels like it would be good data to check rates of Alzheimer’s on people using lithium as treatment for bipolar disorder.

    Either way, I hope this pans out into something useful for once.

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      Lithium orotate is a supplement, no longer one of the forms of lithium used for bipolar disorder. I had a relative who took lithium orotate daily and still developed Alzheimer’s.

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      The data are promising:

      https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/lithium-and-risk-for-alzheimers-disease-in-elderly-patients-with-bipolar-disorder/2F966D8BD1FF7E946C95949950AA61C1

      https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.26343472.abstract

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