Posted on 09/27/2023 4:11:28 PM PDT by Morgana
Women who have had several children could be at a reduced risk of dementia, research suggests.
Experts have discovered that higher exposure to oestrogen throughout a woman's life could lead to a healthier brain.
Those with a longer 'reproductive lifespan', or who have had several children, accumulate a higher exposure to the hormone.
This appears to lead to a lower risk of cerebral small vessel disease – a condition that results from damage to small blood vessels in the brain and is linked to cognitive impairment and dementia.
Researchers analysed 9,000 postmenopausal women with an average age of 64 living in the UK.
Participants answered questions on reproductive health including their age at their first period, when they started the menopause and their number of pregnancies.
They also had brain scans to look for cerebral small vessel disease.
The scientists calculated lifetime hormone exposure by adding the number of years women were pregnant to the duration of their reproductive lifespan, which is the number of years between first menstruation and menopause.
The average lifetime hormone exposure was 40 years. Analysis revealed those with a higher lifetime hormone exposure had lower white matter hyperintensity volumes – an indicator of cerebral small vessel disease.
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Yet that is offset by your kids driving you crazy.
I don’t trust medical studies anymore.
They also have a lower incidence of breast and uterine cancers. God meant for women to have babies.
Imagine that. God created the woman to have babies? Do the liberals and “planned parenthood” know this?
The usual...Push for a pill to overcome having just a couple of kids. Guess not enough women on hormone pills.
Not in my family. We drove Mom crazy!
And the number of cats correlates with the exact opposite.
Why would anyone, other than fed money, research something this stupid?
My mom had four kids. Didn’t stop her from falling to dementia. Maybe she was an outlier.
AMEN on gettin’ it in on the first reply !
Well I had 4 so I did my part.
Ehhh - I’m gonna disagree.
If that were true men would have a higher level of dementia from lack of estrogen.
Also both my grandmother and mother had it and delivered 3 children each.
I mean.. with 6 you get egg roll?
“And the number of cats correlates with the exact opposite.”
quote of the day
Well, that’s some nice news for a mother of nine!
“Yet that is offset by your kids driving you crazy.”
You have not learned to do the “Parental Curse” on them? You say to them “When you grow up I hope you have kids that act like you are acting now”. This curse works.
Every parent thinks having kids is like Mary Poppins with the children when it’s like Owen Grady with the Velociraptors (Jurassic World)
They should have asked how many cats they have. Cat to kid ratio is probably a good indicator.
Tax Chick might be interested in this study.
More junk science. My MIL died of Lewy Body dementia and she had six children.
[Yet that is offset by your kids driving you crazy.]
I have to get in a thread early or all the good replies are taken.
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