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Groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research: Lithium could treat, prevent it, says new study



Could a common metal used to treat psychiatric disorders be the holy grail that prevents and even reverses Alzheimer’s disease?

In a provocative new study, Harvard Medical School scientists found that lithium, an element found in some foods and drinking water and in trace amounts in our bodies, can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s.

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