Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain
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derektank
3 minutes ago
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The damage the Women’s Health Initiative did to women’s health by conducting the flawed research that got HRT black boxes for twenty years really cannot be overstated. We went from a quarter of women being on estrogen replacement therapy post-menopause at the turn of the millennium to ~5% in 2020. A real case study in institutional failure.
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thridmddi9e93
21 minutes ago
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> 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.

Women live much longer and more comfortable lives. Men are more likely to die before alzheimer can even manifest.

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jona-f
1 minute ago
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Well, I went out to disprove your thesis, thinking we can easily look at countries where men live longer than women in another country.

For example, women in the US have a lower life expectancy than men in Australia (go figure). Now women are less than 1.4 times more likely than men to get dementia in australia, but about 2 times more likely to get alzheimer in the US. So that kind of points in your direction, but that is of course wildly inaccurate, cause one is mentioning dementia the other only alzheimer and whatnot.

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/ https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/dementia/dementia-in-aus/con... https://www.alz.org/getmedia/ef8f48f9-ad36-48ea-87f9-b740346...

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analog8374
17 minutes ago
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Memory is environment-associated. Which is to say, these memories that you have are connected to the environment that you find yourself in. Change your environment and your memory, to a degree proportional to the environment change, breaks.

This is why sometimes you enter a room and forget why you came in.

This can explain the phenomenon referred to in the op. A woman enters a room devoid of estrogen and her memory breaks.

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