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Many people think of video games as a waste of time.

Could they instead help us develop skills that will make our lives better?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

Dr. Jane McGonagall is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California.

When she suffered a severe concussion, her world was turned upside down.

Creating a game called Jane, the Concussion Slayer,

helped her overcome the depression, fatigue, and headaches that immobilized her.

Can playing games help you learn to control your attention, mobilize support, and motivate

yourself to overcome health challenges?

Coming up on the people's pharmacy, find out how you could use a gameful mindset to become

super better.

First, the news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, a German study has revealed another potential risk of taking certain popular heartburn drugs over the long term.

The study published this week in Gemma Neurology, found that PPI users were 44% more likely to develop dementia over the seven years of the study. The researchers reviewed medical records from more than 73,000 older people. Nearly 3,000 of them filled prescriptions for drugs such as omeprosol, lanceoprozov or

esomeprazol, on a regular basis. These medicines are better known by their brand names,

Prilosec, Prevacid, and Nexium. The analysis showed an association between such proton pump

inhibitors and the risk of dementia. It did not show that the drugs caused

dementia. Nonetheless, an accompanying editorial points out that PPIs may impact brain enzymes

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