A wave of recent studies — published in Nature, Cell, and JAMA — suggest that getting a shingles vaccine may significantly reduce the risk of dementia.
The research leverages natural experiments in Wales, Canada, Australia, and the US, using a methodology that comes as close to a randomized controlled trial as observational data allows. Tommy unpacks how the studies work, why the signal appears to be real, what might explain it beyond infection prevention, and what it means for your own decision-making around vaccination timing.
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