Viagra might help treat Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers who have been using the impotence drug to study the effects it has on the brain.
Though more studies are needed, researchers in Cleveland found that men who were taking the blue pill, also known as sildenafil, had a lower risk of Alzheimer’s, following analysis of a database of over 7.2 million patients spanning six years, BBC News reported Monday.
The team also found in lab studies that those who took higher than usual doses of the pill—best known for erectile dysfunction—displayed an increase in brain cell growth and reduced protein accumulation, according to…
