New research indicates that starting your period at a younger age and ending your period at a later one may reduce your risk of dementia. Learn more about the link between dementia risk and reproductive years, and how it may be connected to estrogen exposure.
Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion from Ohio State's Patient and Community Peer Review Academy where she frequently serves as a community reviewer for grant requests for health research.Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content.
that more rigorous research is needed to assess the connection between estrogen exposure and dementia risk. Meanwhile, those who went through menopause in their 50s were about 24% less likely to develop dementia than women who stopped having periods in their 40s. Participants who had a history of hysterectomy and/or bilateral oophorectomy had an 8% increased dementia risk.especially given that “for years and years, people have wondered if estrogen somehow was protective of brain cells.”
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