Dr Luke O'Neill

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561 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jul

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The Pat Kenny Show · Luke O’Neill on Alzheimer’s · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

Now, what's happening here, they think, is guess what?

It might cause brain inflammation as well and begins to trigger shingles.

effects in the brain and might bring on Alzheimer's.

So you get a vaccine and it does re-erupt, it won't damage your brain is the idea.

The second thing is there's a component in the vaccine, it's got an adjuvant that seems to help clear the plaque.

Isn't that amazing?

So there's something going on with this vaccine that really points towards it being protective.

The Economist wrote about this, but it's a no-brainer to provide the shingles vaccine to people.

Because you're right, if you keep people out of nursing homes...

It costs the world economy $1.3 trillion Alzheimer's as a disease.

So anything that will decrease, it will be hugely economically beneficial to any health care system.

And you have sympathy for them because there's a pot of money, isn't there?

Let's face it.

But it's a long game.

But you will definitely economically benefit in the long run.

And I've got sympathy for the Minister because it's not easy, is it?

But the evidence, let's follow the science path, let's put it that way.

The science tells us this shingles vaccine is a protector against Alzheimer's disease in the long run.

And the cost-benefit analysis is a no-brainer.

That's one challenge.

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