Posted on 01/25/2025 8:15:26 PM PST by bimboeruption
Dementia claims the lives of smarter people sooner, scientists have discovered.
People who spend more years at school or in education are likely to deteriorate from the neurodegenerative disease faster, according to the biggest study of its kind.
Scientists have dubbed the phenomenon the “cognitive reserve paradigm”. Authors from the Erasmus University Medical Centre, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, said: “This paradigm postulates that people with higher education are more resilient to brain injury before functional declines.
“Once this reserve has been used up and dementia is diagnosed, however, these people are already at a more advanced stage of the underlying disease and clinical progression will be faster.”
Dementia is the leading cause of death in the UK and there are various types with differing symptoms, impact and rates of decline.
The condition is caused by certain proteins clumping together in the brain, including amyloid and tau, which new drugs are trying to stop from occurring.
A person’s cognitive reserve is their brain’s ability to cope and keep working, including in the face of diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
It can be bolstered through learning and mental stimulation such as education and doing brain puzzles.
But the research found that, paradoxically, these patients go downhill faster if they do get a diagnosis.
Research published in the BMJ, which analysed 261 studies including 36 relating to educational attainment, found life expectancy after a dementia diagnosis decreased for every extra year of education a person had received.
The average survival time was 10.5 years, but the scientists calculated that for every extra year of study a person had undertaken, they lived for 0.2 years less – equivalent to about two and a half months.
It would mean someone who had finished an undergraduate degree aged 21 would live for a year less than...
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More to lose, whot?
Is that from research? I have a couple of cousins to whom that applies.
Agree. Their intelligence gives them more work-arounds, or even more strategies to deny the illness or fool their loved ones for far longer.
I've just had a friend go through the process and die of it. He was not only very, very smart, but very, very kind and giving, doing mission work up til the very moment he couldn't, having become a cleric after his impactful career in higher math. It's particularly tragic when the sufferer is smart enough to know what is happening and how many opportunities he or she is losing. My friend was still praying for people in his last week on earth. So glad he is fully restored in the arms of his Maker now.
Do you believe the symptoms you describe are from covid itself, or from the vax, one or more doses? You don’t have to answer on the public forum if you prefer freepmail.
I was never vaxxed.
Covid wrecked me in early 2020 (January 2020 chest x-ray and MRI showed clean and clear; by April 2020 my lungs were destroyed with massive scarring).
I was never going to willingly introduce anything in my system that replicated Covid.
Mostly I have observed it in my family and my wife’s family during my 77 years.
My mother started having problems when she was in her late 60s. Her mother was about 39 years old at her birth.
Your cousins are more evidence.
I was born when my mother was 23 years old and have very few problems.
There is some evidence here:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8216010/
Hmmm, now I have a new excuse. My thoughts didn’t load properly, which is why I don’t remember why I’m in this room. :D
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I am so sorry what has happened. Trust God to help you find relief.
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