r/psychology • u/psych4you • 1d ago

A Common Sleeping Pill Could Reduce Buildup of Alzheimer's Proteins, Study Finds

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-common-sleeping-pill-could-reduce-buildup-of-alzheimers-proteins-study-finds
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u/BooShakeys 1d ago

Always a sigh-inducing caveat: "However, this effect was only seen with some forms of tau, and tau concentrations sprung back up within 24 hours of taking the sleeping pill."

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u/Fancy-Plankton9800 1d ago

The amyloid plaque hypothesis has already been discredited.

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u/Chewednspat 1d ago

There’s a correlation though still isn’t there ?

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u/Shittybeerfan 1d ago

What do you mean

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u/AssCrackBanditHunter 1d ago

The plaque is a symptom not the cause and it causes some symptoms of its own. Removing the plaques can help reduce some of the symptoms but it's not the reason for the alzheimers

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u/Goldmajor- 1d ago

Many countries refer to Alzheimer’s as a type 3 diabetes. We still have our heads up our asses believing poor diet doesn’t cause this crap.

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u/jxx37 1d ago

But diabetes leads to vascular dementia not Alzheimer's. While lifestyle does seem to make the likelihood to dementia my understanding is that mechanisms are still not well understood?

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u/Goldmajor- 7h ago

It’s not type 2 leading to type 3, it’s type three of its own accord.

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u/Shittybeerfan 1d ago

Oh gotcha thank you. I tried to google based on their comment but that gave me some more direction

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u/YESmynameisYes 1d ago

This is the third Alzheimers article I’ve seen on here this week.

The other two were “being single” and “shingles vaccine”.

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u/Azurehour 1h ago

You sure you’re remembering correctly grandpa?

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u/IusedtoloveStarWars 1d ago

What’s the pill?

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u/ToughOk4114 1d ago

Looks like the brand name is Belsomra.

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u/MycloHexylamine 1d ago edited 22h ago

suvorexant. couldve found out by clicking the link

edit: not sure why the downvotes. both things i said were true

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u/iBawsy 4h ago

Take my upvote. I couldn’t be bothered to click the link.

Even gave the compound name instead of the brand name, which is more useful to me