'Misconceptions of the differences between men and women––and a dearth of studies on the female body that might uncover such differences––are a sad if recurring theme throughout the history of womenshealth.' menopause brainhealth
I’ve been keeping a Google Doc of all the words my 53-year-old brain hasn’t been able to remember. The list has grown long. It might have grown twice as long, but often I forget the word I’ve forgotten between forgetting it and rushing to the computer to write it down. Next to the missing word in question, I note the description I used instead, such as “the thing that blows” and “the kind of shirt that’s soft and plaid” .
Despite heavy investments in understanding Alzheimer’s, the condition remains mysterious. The primary cause or causes are unknown. So far, every magic-bullet drug trial has failed. From 2000 to 2017, deaths from Alzheimer’s increased by 145 percent. Isaacson believes that treating Alzheimer’s before it sets in, instead of after, could be a promising strategy to stave off some instances of cognitive decline, as well as a way to push researchers to reexamine the underlying factors and mechanisms of the disease. It has often been posited that this is because women live longer than men, giving the disease more time to set in.
Roberta Diaz Brinton, the director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona, shares this view. Thirty years ago, she was the first researcher to study estrogen depletion in the brains of rodents during their perimenopause-to-menopause transition. “Menopause is like puberty,” Brinton says. It changes the brain forever. “The loss of estrogen means that glucose metabolism in the brain, its primary fuel, is reduced by about 20 to 25 percent.
The bad news is that barriers remain to early detection and preventative treatment, particularly the lack of public information. After my first interview with Mosconi in May, I posted the transcript on the blogging platform Medium, where it received more than 100 responses, predominantly from women shocked by the link between menopause and Alzheimer’s.
Tanzi stresses that scientists have considered the possible link between estrogen depletion and Alzheimer’s for decades, but he sees Mosconi’s clinical work as a crucial new piece of the Alzheimer’s puzzle. “She’s certainly ramping it up on looking at how women are more prone to Alzheimer’s,” he says.
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