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Shingles attacks your nervous system. Avoiding shingles prevents it from damaging your brain, so it isn’t surprising the vaccine reduces dementia. There are m
by hedora 11mo ago
Shingles attacks your nervous system. Avoiding shingles prevents it from damaging your brain, so it isn’t surprising the vaccine reduces dementia.
There are multiple causes for dementia. If I read figure 2 right, the vaccine slightly reduces the chance of mild cognitive impairment, but cuts the chances of dying from dementia by about a third(!)
Also interesting: The vaccine helps at different phases of disease progression.
The simplest explanation is that dementia is due to cumulative damage, not a single event, and that getting shingles is a big hit.
The vaccine probably prevents dementia in the same way staying out of planes makes you invulnerable to parachute failures.
- jtbayly 11mo agoA lot of dead BASE jumpers disagree...
- _alternator_ 11mo agoThe emerging evidence, taken together, shows a ~20% reduction in dementia over 7 years. So it’s actually pretty dramatic. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vacc...
- wdb 11mo agoWhat do they mean with 'dying from dementia'? As typically you don't die from dementia but something like pneumonia or something else. Personally, I wouldn't wish dementia on anyone and definitely wouldn't want to extend my life while having dementia.
- jjtheblunt 11mo agonot eating is an example, i believe, from my father who had chemo induced neurotoxicity predicted well over a decade earlier.