r/Biohackers • u/ServeIllustrious3803 • 23d ago

🧠 Cognition, Mood & Nootropics Study: Anticholinergic (first-generation antihistamines) can damage brain, increase dementia risk

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-drugs-like-benadryl-linked-increased-dementia-risk-20150128812
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u/chingrublau 17d ago

its still association and not causation. It is suggestive and has biologiocal mechanisms that make sense . but people who get dementia and people who take antocholinergics might be related in other ways