Organ transplant patients may not get dementia
Initially I thought that the reason for this would be that most people with transplants live less than 10 years, and eligibility requirements of who gets transplants (and therefore who gets calcineurin inhibitors) might further complicate the results.<p>Wow, was I ever wrong. This article says it's not too uncommon for people to live 30 years after their transplant. Other articles say that even the obese are eligible for transplantation now. Very impressive.<p><a href="https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/blog/how-long-do-transplanted-organs-last" rel="nofollow">https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/blog/how-long-do-transplanted-...</a><p>That being said, I know life extension and nootropics and all that jazz is a really popular topic with tech bros, so its worth noting the side effects of calcineurin inhibitors are really bad.<p>It's also neat ciclosporin was isolated from some scandanavian fungus living in the soil. Makes me sad thinking about how once we are able to significantly understand and appreciate genetics and related biotechnology later this century, half of the species on earth will already be gone, their amazing biological traits and compounds lost forever.