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Title: Estrogen may increase dementia risk
Post by: Natasha on June 18, 2009, 05:22:50 PM
Estrogen may increase dementia risk

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/06/estrogen.html (http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/06/estrogen.html)
June 2009

Research has shown that estrogen increases older women's risk of
developing dementia and cognitive decline. How estrogen does that,
though, has been a matter of debate. But a study published online in
Neurology suggests that the hormone may do this by shrinking women's
brains
Title: Re: Estrogen may increase dementia risk
Post by: MaggieB on June 18, 2009, 06:08:19 PM
Once again we hear bad results from "estrogen therapy" but which estrogen was used? Most papers that I am familiar with are about synthetic hormones not natural estradiol because most menopausal HRT is synthetic i.e. Premarin. 

Maggie
Title: Re: Estrogen may increase dementia risk
Post by: GinaDouglas on June 18, 2009, 11:16:04 PM
Estrogen shrinks women's brains?  Starting when?  Puberty?  Let's hope the misogynists and wife-beaters never hear about this.
Title: Re: Estrogen may increase dementia risk
Post by: sd on June 19, 2009, 12:16:48 AM
Well, at least you won't know .  :P