{"id":227772,"date":"2025-12-24T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/natural-protein-drug-may-slow-neuron-death-linked-to-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:07:58","slug":"natural-protein-drug-may-slow-neuron-death-linked-to-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/natural-protein-drug-may-slow-neuron-death-linked-to-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Natural protein drug may slow neuron death linked to Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/natural-protein-drug-may-slow-neuron-death-linked-to-alzheimers-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may begin in early life, a drug long-approved for other conditions might be repurposed to slow this damage, offering new hope for those with Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) and other cognition issues.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports-medicine\/fulltext\/S2666-3791(25)00598-1\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> was published today in the journal Cell Reports Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis drug improved one measure of cognition and reduced a blood measure of neuron death in people with AD in a relatively short period of time in its first clinical trial,\u201d said the study\u2019s senior author Professor Huntington Potter, Ph.D., director of the University of Colorado Alzheimer\u2019s and Cognition Center at CU Anschutz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may begin in early life, a drug long-approved for other conditions might be repurposed to slow this damage, offering new hope for those with Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) and other cognition issues. The study was published today in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}