{"id":246620,"date":"2026-11-05T03:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/vibrating-mattress-and-nitric-oxide-pill-may-clear-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-11-05T03:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:06:35","slug":"vibrating-mattress-and-nitric-oxide-pill-may-clear-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/vibrating-mattress-and-nitric-oxide-pill-may-clear-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Vibrating Mattress and Nitric-Oxide Pill May Clear Alzheimer\u2019s Protein From The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk: Blood levels of;elm: context_link;itc:0;sec: content-canvas;evdesc:context_link_tap;\" data-yga=\"{'yLinkText':'Blood levels of','yLinkElement':'context_link','yModuleName':'article_body','yEventDescription':'context_link_tap'}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2597081-vibrating-mattress-helps-clear-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-y-link-id=\"073z1ny05s5qqk0e2ebf\" data-rapid_p=\"12\" data-v9y=\"1\">Blood levels of<\/a> <a data-ylk=\"slk: beta-amyloid 42;elm: context_link;itc:0;sec: content-canvas;evdesc:context_link_tap;\" data-yga=\"{'yLinkText':'beta-amyloid 42','yLinkElement':'context_link','yModuleName':'article_body','yEventDescription':'context_link_tap'}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2597081-vibrating-mattress-helps-clear-alzheimers-protein-from-the-brain\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-y-link-id=\"02ntf8m1vzuf2p0coq5w\" data-rapid_p=\"13\" data-v9y=\"1\"><strong>beta-amyloid 42<\/strong><\/a> rose by an average of <strong>35%<\/strong> in healthy adults who spent 40 minutes on a gently vibrating mattress while taking two nitric-oxide-releasing sublingual pills. That result, from Vesa Kiviniemi of the University of Oulu and colleagues, is the study\u2019s central finding, and it needs immediate context to make sense.<\/p>\n<p>Beta-amyloid 42 is a protein involved in normal neuronal signaling, but when it misfolds and clumps inside the <a data-ylk=\"slk: brain tissue;elm: context_link;itc:0;sec: content-canvas;evdesc:context_link_tap;\" data-yga=\"{'yLinkText':'brain tissue','yLinkElement':'context_link','yModuleName':'article_body','yEventDescription':'context_link_tap'}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgetreview.com\/german-scientists-revive-frozen-brain-tissue-after-week-long-deep-freeze\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-y-link-id=\"0axbaf50uq29zp0a395s\" data-rapid_p=\"14\" data-v9y=\"1\">brain tissue<\/a>, those aggregates are associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood levels of beta-amyloid 42 rose by an average of 35% in healthy adults who spent 40 minutes on a gently vibrating mattress while taking two nitric-oxide-releasing sublingual pills. That result, from Vesa Kiviniemi of the University of Oulu and colleagues, is the study\u2019s central finding, and it needs immediate context to make sense. Beta-amyloid [\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-246620","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\/246620","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=246620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}