Posted on 09/27/2022 1:07:42 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Prior to Steven Owens taking his retirement in 2018 he was an engineer. The 59-year-old who once built satellites for launch into outer space also played the guitar and saxophone.
That was before his diagnosis.
On Valentine’s Day 2017, Owens was told that he had early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
On Valentine’s Day five years before, his mother passed away from the same disease.
Dementia is one of the most common ailments associated with aging.
Now, studies are showing a link between experiences of racism and poor memory, cognitive decline.
Alzheimer’s disease is what most often comes to mind when anyone hears the term dementia.
As defined by the National Institute on Aging, dementia is the loss of cognitive thinking, remembering, and reasoning to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities. While the two terms often are used interchangeably, Alzheimer’s is just one type of dementia.
According to studies reported at the 2022 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in San Diego last month, experiences of structural, interpersonal, and institutional racism are associated with poor memory and increased cognitive decline in middle and old age, especially amongst African-American people.
The study focused on pathways that can lead to decreased memory and cognitive function decline.
“Trauma– including racism– leads to biological responses in the body,” said Master of Public Health, Carl Hill, chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at the Alzheimer’s Association.
“Inflammation in the body is well documented as leading to many serious medical conditions. For some people, dealing with the stress of racism and discrimination includes less heathy lifestyle choices and coping mechanisms. These coping mechanisms might include alcohol and other illegal substances, and overindulging in unhealthy foods.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at afro.com ...
This is pure nonsense!
Of course it is. I wish it worked, I’d call every dem I meet a racial or sexist pejorative.
Real scientists are starting to believe that Alzheimer’s is actually a vascular disease and that the same things that damage your heart do the same to your brain (bad diet, lack of exercise, etc.).
Gosh, all this time I thought that adversity and struggle made people MORE resiliant and more intelligent.
But What Do I Know.
That’s pseudoscience speak for “you’re racist and you need to feel guilty.” You see, “link” is a very precise term. Most of us are not familiar with such pseudoscience jargon because we didn’t take the Black Studies required course in African Statistics. I bet you didn’t know that Africa is the cradle of mathematics and African mathematics is far superior to Western notions of mathematics because non-African mathematics is racist. A lot of you crackers, with your high IQs, can’t understand African mathematics and science. There is a unique logic to it that makes it incomprehensible to racists. You need an IQ of at least one standard deviation below the Caucasian mean to be equal in black cognitive abilities. Fortunately, there are many white Democrats possess such intellectual prowess. But they are racist too.
Everything bad is due to racism and climate change.
Yeah, I was thinking that if racism = declining mental acuity, and since ‘Merican blax are the most racist people on earth, then .............
I think it is just the opposite. I had no opinion of people from the Middle East until they demonstrated their skill with mayhem, murder, and destruction. Same with blacks.
Oh yeah it is. This article is crap science. Every narrative these days has something to do with race.
“...Carl Hill, chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at the Alzheimer’s Association.”
That disqualifies this clown for even telling us if it’s raining or not.
Well, if your delusions of persecution cause you to also doubt real facts, facts stored in memory; why are you surprised?
If you see actual unicorns all around you, your mind is flawed. Face that fact, why don’t yah?
Correlation is causation when it supports our narrative that America is racist.
So racism is genetic... interesting lol
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Every election cycle...
This is beginning to be like the ‘scientific anti semiticism’ narrative about Jews. Essentially the Jews cause everything that is bad.Now, whitey is doing the same thing. The outcome of this sort of narrative is eliminationism.
This so reminds me of the “scientific” research being done by the Nazis to justify their racial theories.
There was a very good article by some researchers at Johns Hopkins which showed that children exposed to daily violence have a reaction to that stress that causes lagging cognitive growth, leading to lower IQs in adults.
"I ate McDonald's instead of fruits and vegetables because racism made me do it!"
This article is a long, long reach. An axe in search of a grinder.
A Quarter Pounder with cheese or a Big Mac contains all the various food groups in one compact package.
McDonalds is a multinational success simply because the company provides excellent products people all over the world like to eat.
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