Evidence is accumulating that the shingles vaccine also protects against Alzheimer’s disease—and can slow biological aging.

Two new studies this week have advanced our understanding about the potential biological impact of the Shingles vaccine, independent of its effects for preventing Shingles or direct action vs. herpes zoster virus and reinforced its protection from dementia, ~80% of which is attributable to Alzheimer’s disease. In this post I won’t get into the details of what I previously wrote (please link back for more perspective), but instead devote the text to the new findings. I’ll come back to this summary Figure below shortly.

Eric Topol

Many thanks to Alexis V. for sharing