Estrogen may increase dementia risk

[Natasha]

Estrogen may increase dementia risk

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

[MaggieB]

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

[GinaDouglas]

Estrogen shrinks women's brains?  Starting when?  Puberty?  Let's hope the misogynists and wife-beaters never hear about this.

[sd]

Well, at least you won't know .