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Paid-only Episode 9: Viagra

Paid-only Episode 9: Viagra

Science Fictions · Stuart Ritchie and Tom Chivers

June 25, 202410m 32s

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There’s one thing we know Viagra does very well. But what other uses does it have? Can it, as has now been claimed in three separate studies, prevent Alzheimer’s disease?

In this priapic paid-only episode of The Studies Show, Tom and Stuart ask if there might be something to the theory that, through some vascular mechanism, Viagra might slow the effects of dementia. Or is that all just a phallus… er, fallacy?