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A drug combo studied for anti-aging just backfired in mice — researchers caught severe loss of brain insulation, mimicking the 'chemo brain' it was meant to fight

A pair of drugs once hailed as a breakthrough against brain aging has done the opposite of what scientists expected. In a study published in May 2026 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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CBD may calm the brain’s runaway immune response behind Alzheimer’s — quieting the inflammation that slowly burns memory away

The immune cells that protect the brain can also destroy it. In Alzheimer’s disease, microglia, the brain’s resident defenders, lock into a state of chronic activation around amyloid plaques, pumping ...