Dr. Tommy Wood

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Huberman Lab · Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

One, obviously we know it reduces cases of shingles.

Shingles can be very painful.

It can change how people interact with the world.

You stay at home, you don't feel good, you're in a lot of pain for a long period of time.

That can go for many months.

It's rare for it to last many months, but it can last a long time.

Then they've hypothesized in some of those papers that,

that the magnitude of the reduction of dementia risk didn't map perfectly onto the reduction in cases of shingles.

There had to be something else going on as well.

They've suggested that it may be due to an immunomodulatory effect.

It may be because you're also suppressing other viruses like herpes simplex virus that we know may also be associated with certain cases of dementia or Alzheimer's.

And one of the arguments for the immunomodulatory effect is because not in all the studies, but in most of the studies, there's a slightly bigger signal in women than there is in men.

And it may be that that sort of- Meaning it's more effective- More effective in women than it was in men.

The study is actually quite late.

It's like people in their 70s and 80s.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Okay.

So again,

And it would be very fair to argue that getting it much earlier, we don't have any evidence for.

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