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September 2nd, 2025
Research on Lithium Shows Potential To Treat Alzheimer's Disease - SevenPonds Blog
At Harvard Medical School, research scientists may have found a key ingredient that could have a major impact on ways to detect and treat Alzheimer’s disease. As a bonus, it’s a cheap and accessible metal that naturally occurs in the body and has already been used in medicine: lithium.
The study, published in August in the medical journal Nature, suggests a lithium deficiency in the brain might be associated with the increase in the plaques linked with Alzheimer’s disease.
In their study, rese...