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💊 Lithium • 🧠 Memory • 🔄 Reversal

💊 Lithium • 🧠 Memory • 🔄 Reversal

Dr RR Baliga's "Got Knowledge Doc" Podkast

August 9, 20255m 48s

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🧠✨ New hope for Alzheimer's treatment — A Nature study reveals that low brain lithium levels may drive memory loss, amyloid plaques, and tau tangles. Researchers found that lithium orotate, a form less likely to bind amyloid, restored brain lithium, reduced pathology, and even reversed memory loss in mice — without kidney or thyroid toxicity.

💡 If confirmed in clinical trials, this low-cost, multitarget approach could transform care for millions with Alzheimer's and potentially benefit older adults with bipolar disorder.

🔗 Read more: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02471-4

#Alzheimers #Neuroscience #Innovation #Neuroprotection #DementiaResearch 🧬💊