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Looks like they actually protects against Parkinson's. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20089748v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1

Looks like they actually protects against Parkinson's. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20089748v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20089748v... I found no relationships with Alzheimer's. The only big negative found seems to be blood pressure, but you can manage that just by keeping your weight in check and exercising regularly. I take medication and my blood pressure is at normal levels, I go for regular checkups.

slaymaker1907 6y ago
Thank you for the link. When I started seeing my current doctor, they tried scare mongering by claiming stimulants can cause Parkinsons. There is a study to back this up [1,2], but I was skeptical of it since they didn't seem to control for the fact that someone with ADHD but not on stimulants could either have less intense ADHD or perhaps have some other confounding condition. The study authors actually mention: "The association of ADHD patients prescribed psychostimulants with higher risk of diseases of the basal ganglia and cerebellum may reflect a more severe ADHD phenotype rather than a direct association between prescribed stimulant use and basal ganglia or cerebellum disorders."[2] It's somewhat encouraging to see that this seems to be true and increased chance of Parkinson's is likely due to the severity of ADHD and not due to medication which helps people with ADHD be functional. [1]: https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2018/09/adhd-parkinsons.php https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2018/09/adhd-... [2]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30209407/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30209407/