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This Hangover Cure May Prevent Alzheimer’s

Scientists just found out it clears out the exact cells that drive neurodegenerative disease.

Mar 27, 2026
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Most people have never heard of dihydromyricetin, or DHM. The ones who have know it as one of the active ingredients in hangover supplements. If you take it before you drink, you feel better in the morning. But the hangover story is the least interesting thing about this compound.

DHM comes from the Japanese raisin tree and Chinese vine tea, plants that have been used in traditional Asian medicine for over a thousand years. Researchers have been studying it seriously for about a decade. What they have found goes well beyond liver enzymes and alcohol metabolism.

In the full version of this article you will get:

  • What senescent cells are, why they accumulate in your brain specifically

  • How DHM selectively clears out the most dangerous type of aging brain cell while leaving healthy ones alone

  • The epigenetic angle: how DHM essentially turns back a biological clock

  • The protocol I use, including dose, timing, form, and what to stack it with

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