ARTICLE: "INFLAMMATION AND MEMORY LOSS (PLUS 6 Ways to Protect Your Health)"

INFLAMMATION AND MEMORY LOSS

(PLUS 6 Ways to Protect Your Health)

By Ty Bollinger

From The Truth About Cancer web site

Below is an excerpt from the article.  To read the article in its entirety, click on the link below:

https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/inflammation-and-memory/?utm_campaign=products&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=fb-ttac&utm_content=inflammation-and-memory&a_aid=59c13831797bc&u1=fbttacinflammationandmemory&fbclid=IwAR1jVCj3u4fItAWxYm_UhYjEooz05zqsQf03wgEF5gU_kUsh7YAZcBnspmc 

ARTICLE EXCERPT:

 

Chronic inflammation beginning in middle age has been linked to cognitive decline in later years, according to a new cohort study. Chronic inflammation can result from poor diet, stress, environmental toxins, or lingering infections, among other things. In the study of over 12,000 participants, midlife inflammation was correlated with a sharp decline in cognitive decline – especially memory.

This is one of the first studies of its kind to look at midlife inflammation and memory rather than inflammation later in life. Dr. Keenan Walker of Johns Hopkins University, one of the authors of the study, elaborates:

While other studies have looked at chronic inflammation and its effects on the brain in older people, our large study investigated chronic inflammation beginning in middle age and showed that it may contribute to cognitive decline in the decades leading up to old age. Overall, the additional change in thinking and memory skills associated with chronic inflammation was modest, but it was greater than what has been seen previously associated with high blood pressure in middle age.”

You see, there have been previous studies linking hypertension (or high blood pressure) to lowered memory and overall cognitive decline, but the new study shows that inflammation may have an even more dramatic affect on memory in later years. Many older people suffer from dementia or other cognitive issues. Dementia is an umbrella term that describes symptoms of brain disorders rather than a specific disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia. This study shows that inflammation may be at the root of these diseases.

But Walker clarified that inflammation may not be the direct cause of cognitive decline, but rather a marker of, or response to, neurodegenerative brain disease. It is generally accepted that factors leading to memory loss and cognitive decline begin in middle age. That may be when the body is most receptive to interventions that can stop or slow the mechanisms that lead to such a decline.

To read the rest of the article and to find out about the 6 steps, click on the link above.