3 Things Women Should Do to Lower Their Dementia Risk, According to Science

3 Things Women Should Do to Lower Their Dementia Risk, According to Science

And it starts with taking care of your hearing.Reviewed by Dietitian Katey Davidson, M.Sc.FN, RD, CPTCredit: Getty Images. EatingWell design.Key PointsWomen face more dementia risk factors and steeper cognitive impacts from diabetes and hearing loss.Managing blood pressure, hearing loss and blood sugar may help women reduce their dementia risk.Personalized brain health strategies tailored to sex and age can better protect cognitive function.Unde…

Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain tissue

A largely overlooked space between cells in women’s brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study. Nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are women, but the reasons why women are more vulnerable are still not fully understood. Scientists have long theorized that the loss of estrogen after menopause may reduce the brain’s n…

Women’s Brains May Be More Vulnerable To These Common Health Issues

A new study found that women not only experience higher rates of several modifiable dementia risk factors, but also experience stronger cognitive effects from them.

Research suggests women face a higher burden of certain dementia risk factors — and may also be more cognitively affected by them

Tension: Women’s higher Alzheimer’s rates have long been explained away by longevity, while the more specific biological story went largely unasked. Noise: Sex-neutral prevention frameworks have treated dementia risk as a shared baseline, obscuring that the same risk factors carry measurably different cognitive costs by sex. Direct Message: The disparity was never just about who lives longer — it’s about which risk factors hit harder, and in who…