Common Sweetener Could Damage Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.

Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, it has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.
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There's One Critical Thing You Can Do to Keep Alzheimer's Symptoms at Bay Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.

Some people appear to stave off the decline that comes with Alzheimer's disease, even when levels of amyloid-beta proteins are relatively high.
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How Scientists Finally Found a Treatment that Slows Huntington’s Disease After years of heartbreak, researchers have found an experimental treatment that can slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, according to early results from a small clinical trial

More on the virus that's helping treat huntingtons disease
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