"The Dementia Gender Gap: Women Are at Higher Risk Than Men - What You Need to Know to Protect Your Brain Health"
We often joke about "senior moments," but when they start happening to you, they're not funny; instead, they're frustrating, embarrassing, and perhaps even worrisome.
For instance, have you experienced that frustrating feeling of your mind turning to “mush” when you try to remember the name of someone you've known for a long time, like one of your closest friends?
Or forgotten an important date, like your wedding anniversary or your cat's birthday (we won't judge)?
Or realizing that you left the stove on after leaving your apartment, only to return home and discover that you turned it off.
If you often dismiss those moments as a normal part of aging, here is what nobody told you.
Your brain is full of estrogen receptors. When estrogen shifts through the menopause transition, those receptors go quiet, and the chemical messengers that carry your thoughts from A to B have a harder job to do.
That is not you failing. That is chemistry.
You are not alone in this. Researchers at University College London published work showing brain fog affects about two-thirds of women going through menopause, and in the same breath admitted it is still poorly recognized and under-researched.
You were not imagining it. You were dismissed.
Here is what I want you to know. Your brain is the hungriest organ you own, and it is running a demanding transition on an empty tank. It can be fed.
I call this process “Brain Feeding,” and just like we nourish our bodies, we must also nourish our brains to keep them the super-powerful computers they are! In my research, I discovered the top 6 ingredients that help women support their brain health.
