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But we need more evidence to say for sure whether or not, you know, for somebody who's at risk adding Parkinson's, I mean, adding nicotine to their lifestyle is going to play a protective effect.

We don't have that data.

It's very preliminary.

All that being said, nicotine is a well-known nootropic, and I dabble with it for a cognitive boost.

It's not good for your cardiorespiratory function when used chronically.

it can raise heart rate.

It can raise blood pressure.

Chronic use is probably not good from the standpoint of brain health, from the standpoint of cardiovascular health.

It's also addictive.

So it's very hard to, uh, use responsibly.

Although if you can power to you, um, so to sum up, it's interesting mechanistically, but it's not something that I would at this juncture recommend for prevention.

The next question.

is do you have other suggestions for allergies for people not to overtake allergy medications?

And that question comes from JC Dragon.

That's a fantastic question.

So I think that the reason why that question was asked is because I was on a podcast recently.

I was on Culture Apothecary with my friend Alex Clark, and I was talking about the well-documented increased risk that chronic users of certain

allergy medications sleep aids anti-nausea medications have for dementia and the the caveat the aster the the very crucial asterisk here is that these are certain medications these aren't all allergy medications but the first generation of allergy medication medications

are strongly anticholinergic and they also can readily pass the blood brain barrier.

These are drugs like Benadryl, Unisom.