the new findings base themselves on a study from 2017 that proposed the mood stabilizer lithium might help starve off dementia in patients. it was found that people who drank water with higher concentrations of lithium were 17 per cent less likely to develop dementia compared to people whose water barely contained lithium.
since then, as medical news today reports , other studies and clinical trials have also suggested a link between micro-doses of lithium and the lowering of alzheimer’s risk by influencing key pathological mechanisms at play in the neurodegenerative condition.
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the results, published in the journal of alzheimer’s disease , showed that np03 was effective as it “rescues functional deficits in object recognition” tests and helped to reduce damage that affects the brain in the later stages of the condition.