
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.
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BREAKING: The shingles vaccine is linked to a 51% lower risk of dementia in the largest study yet — 329,000 people, published this year. This is now the 6th major peer-reviewed study to find the same thing. (Paper published February 2026 in Nature Medicine) Thread 🧵👇
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.146,370 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen

🚨 BREAKING Scientists may have just cracked the code on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's — WITH ONE PILL. A drug called Buntanetap was just published in a peer-reviewed journal with Phase 3 data. Phase 3 means that we are on the verge of FDA approval. It targets the ROOT CAUSE of both diseases simultaneously. Here's what you need to know 🧵👇 #Alzheimers #Parkinsons
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.500,864 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

BREAKING: Scientists just gave two old, cheap drugs to MS patients — a hay fever pill and a diabetes tablet — and measured something no drug has ever shown before. Signs of actual nerve repair. Not slowing the attack. REPAIRING the damage. Here's the science behind it 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.466,436 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🚨 BREAKING: German researchers treated 15 severe lupus patients with CAR-T therapy. All 15 went into complete remission. Many stopped ALL medication. Now a larger trial just confirmed it — across 3 autoimmune diseases. This might be the biggest shift in autoimmune medicine in decades. 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.423,683 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

BREAKING: For the first time in 100+ years, Alzheimer's may not be permanent Scientists just reversed advanced Alzheimer's in mice by restoring brain energy balance, eliminating both plaques AND cognitive decline The drug worked in two different animal models, suggesting "this could translate to humans". Game-changing 🧠
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.242,943 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

BREAKING: Scientists just ran the first-ever clinical trial of creatine in Alzheimer’s patients. Brain creatine went up. Memory and thinking improved. But the same supplement FAILED a 5-year, 1,741-patient Parkinson’s trial in 2015. What changed? What does this mean for brain energy? A thread on the most fascinating story in brain energy research right now. 🧵🧪 #Alzheimers #Parkinsons #Creatine
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.64,823 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

🚨 BREAKING: Scientists just found specific gut bacteria that can trigger MS-like disease ... using identical twins as proof. One twin had MS, the other didn’t. They had the same DNA and the same upbringing. But, totally different gut bacteria. What they discovered is wild. Thread 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.62,845 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

BREAKING: Scientists may have found the first treatment that actually slows Parkinson's disease — and it costs $0. It's not a drug. It's not a surgery. It's exercise. But not just any exercise. The TYPE and INTENSITY matter enormously. Here's what the clinical trials actually show 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.109,250 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🚨 BREAKING Scientists just cracked one of cancer's hardest problems. A new therapy called KIR-CAR just showed — for the first time in humans — that it can fight solid tumors that NO approved CAR-T therapy has ever beaten. Zero serious side effects. Tumors shrinking. Here's what happened 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.62,411 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

🔴Promising new data: Red light therapy is showing real results in Parkinson's disease clinical trials — gait improves, tremors ease, and new brain imaging suggests it may actually protect dopamine neurons. This isn't fringe science. It's peer-reviewed. Here's what the data shows 🧵👇 #Parkinsons #NeurologyResearch
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.35,223 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

BREAKING: For the first time in 100+ years, Alzheimer's may not be permanent Scientists just reversed advanced Alzheimer's in mice by restoring brain energy balance, eliminating both plaques AND cognitive decline The drug worked in two different animal models, suggesting "this could translate to humans". Game-changing!!
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.76,354 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

BREAKING: Scientists just transferred "immune memory" between humans to kill a cancer that gives patients 3 weeks to live. This is tabelecleucel — and it just hit a 50% response rate where nothing else works. Here's what peer-reviewed science actually says 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.86,245 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🚨 BREAKING: Scientists in China grew brain cells in a lab, implanted them into Parkinson's patients, and saw real dopamine come back. Now the FDA has approved this therapy for Phase 1 in the US. This is XS-411. And it might be the most important stem cell story you haven't heard. 🧵 Thread 👇
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.53,392 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🚨 BREAKING: One of the biggest downsides of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound is losing a lot of muscle — up to 30% of total weight lost. A new Phase 2 trial in Nature Medicine just showed a precise way to cut that muscle loss by 55%. And this matters for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, too. Thread 🧵👇
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.16,908 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

BREAKING: A blood-based protein test can reveal how fast your brain's support cells are aging. If they’re aging too fast, your Alzheimer’s risk jumps 12.59x. 60,542 people. 7,000+ proteins. 40+ cell types. This is one of the biggest aging papers of 2026. Here's what it means for your brain. 🧠👇
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.16,276 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

🚨 BREAKING: A study of 10,893 people just found that listening to music most days cuts dementia risk by 39%. No drug trial. No side effects. No prescription. Just a playlist. Here's what the science actually shows — and why neurologists are paying attention 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.47,248 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

BREAKING: Scientists gave healthy older adults a transplant drug once a week. Their immune systems got younger. Their flu vaccine worked 20% better. Side effects? Nearly zero. This is the most exciting anti-aging drug in human history. Here's what the clinical trials actually show 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.31,870 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🚨 BREAKING: Scientists used gene therapy to make heavy-drinking monkeys almost completely stop drinking. The protein responsible? Your brain already makes it. It protects dopamine neurons. And most people have never heard of it. It's called GDNF. Thread 🧵
Harshi Peiris, Ph.D.19,718 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten