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Ryan McCormick, M.D.'s avatar

David this is excellent! Thank you for breaking this down. It seems that purported dementia fixes and promises are really prone to this sort of cherry picking sliced and diced data. The makers of Prevagen did just this - and still make hundreds of millions of dollars on data manipulation.

In case a future reader of this article is searching for dementia truths, and might be tempted to buy Prevagen along with an expensive new sauna, this would be my similar caveat emptor : https://mccormickmd.substack.com/p/does-prevagen-really-work-for-memory

panem et circenses's avatar

I can't find the study. Could you please send us the link? Thank you for sharing your thoughts, great article.

David Epstein's avatar

Hm, not sure why that link is no longer working! Anyway, it's here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23193004/

panem et circenses's avatar

It works, great!! Thank you!

Heidi Lynn Adelsman's avatar

Laugh out loud 😂 bc we’re inundated by shit that’s banned in Europe where there’s no Parkinson’s (1A!). And who can even pronounce (never mind understand) many of the ingredients we ingest or are exposed to? The absurdity and the overwhelmingness (is that a word really?) of it all is aptly displayed in your refrigerator image TY!