My Menopause Magazine – Memory loss

But 1/10,000 women enter menopause by age 20; 1/1,000 by age 30; 1/100 by age 40; and 1/10 will enter menopause before age 45. A new study in the February 2015 issue of the journal Menopause studied women with early menopause to see if and how their symptoms differ from women entering menopause at age 45 and older. One of […]

We know air quality is bad for asthma; but what about bad air quality and your ability to think? A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that the longer you breathe polluted air, the worse your cognitive ability gets. Specifically, the study looked at the long-term exposure of 19,409 U.S. women aged 70-81 to air pollution particles […]

At a recent meeting of North American Menopause Society I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Pauline Maki, a professor of Psychiatry/Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She talked to me about how women can improve their memory and cognition in menopause and perimenopause with the use of estrogen. Dr. Maki discussed how hormones like the ones that […]

We know too much sugar is bad for our waistline.  Now a new study from Mayo Clinic and reported in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease has shown that the people over 70 who ate the most carbohydrates relative to protein and fat approached being 4 times greater risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, which is a precursor to Alzheimer’s Disease. […]

If you live to be 90 you will have slept about 30 years of it. Was it a waste of time? Why would we evolve this way if it were totally unproductive? But fear not. You are not squandering 1/3 of your life. Au contraire. According to new evidence, sleep is actually ensuring that the other 2/3 of your life […]

Stress Reduction, Exercise Reduce Dementia Dr. Mache Seibel and Dr. Victor Henderson talk about the causes of Alzheimer’s disease and how to prevent it.