{"id":238862,"date":"2026-06-13T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/popular-joint-pain-supplement-might-increase-alzheimers-risk-study-says"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:05:00","slug":"popular-joint-pain-supplement-might-increase-alzheimers-risk-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/popular-joint-pain-supplement-might-increase-alzheimers-risk-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Popular joint pain supplement might increase Alzheimer\u2019s risk, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/popular-joint-pain-supplement-might-increase-alzheimers-risk-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A popular over-the-counter supplement taken for joint pain might increase people\u2019s risk for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new study says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2026-06-popular-joint-pain-supplement-dementia.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Glucosamine use<\/a> is associated with a 25% higher odds that a person will progress from mild cognitive impairment to dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, researchers report in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42255-026-01538-4\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Metabolism<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it\u2019s an association and not proof of causality, it does raise an important clinical question that now deserves much more attention,\u201d researcher Matt Gentry said in a news release. He\u2019s chair of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular over-the-counter supplement taken for joint pain might increase people\u2019s risk for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new study says. Glucosamine use is associated with a 25% higher odds that a person will progress from mild cognitive impairment to dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, researchers report in the journal Nature Metabolism. \u201cWhile it\u2019s an association and not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238862","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=238862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}