{"id":238856,"date":"2026-06-12T23:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-supplement-for-joint-pain-could-accelerate-alzheimers-memory-loss"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:04:29","slug":"a-supplement-for-joint-pain-could-accelerate-alzheimers-memory-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-supplement-for-joint-pain-could-accelerate-alzheimers-memory-loss","title":{"rendered":"A Supplement For Joint Pain Could Accelerate Alzheimer\u2019s Memory Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-supplement-for-joint-pain-could-accelerate-alzheimers-memory-loss2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease who took the common supplement glucosamine were <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s42255-026-01538-4\">25% more likely to die within five years<\/a> than those who didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal <em>Nature Metabolism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Glucosamine is a sugar molecule that\u2019s sold over the counter as a remedy for joint pain and arthritis. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketresearchfuture.com\/reports\/glucosamine-supplement-market-35445\">More than 40 million Americans<\/a> take it each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with Alzheimer\u2019s disease who took the common supplement glucosamine were 25% more likely to die within five years than those who didn\u2019t. That\u2019s the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I published in the journal Nature Metabolism. Glucosamine is a sugar molecule that\u2019s sold over the counter as a remedy [\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-238856","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\/238856","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=238856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}