Memory loss is not caused by menopause.
While you may experience the misery of hot flashes and mood swings as you enter menopause, one thing you can't blame it on the "change" is memory loss.
In the latest study that assumes that menopause is a cause of impairing the ability to recall.
Researchers compared the memory of hundreds of women before they had any menopausal symptoms to their memory as they entered menopause.They found the women who were going through the menopausal process scored as well or nearly as well on five different cognitive function tests.
When women go into menopause, they don't need to worry about cognitive decline.
The researchers said the myth of memory loss during menopause is a perception some women have because as they went through menopause, they felt their memory wasn't as sharp as it had been before. Studies suggesting that hormone replacement therapy might protect against dementia strengthened that belief. However, a large study later found that in older women, hormone replacement therapy not only didn't help protect women from dementia, but could actually increase the risk. Some of those hormones also reduced women bone density . Which is a thing to be avoided after a certain age.
To try to answer the question of whether menopause did have any effect on memory.
A researcher and her colleagues studied nearly many postmenopausal women living on a group of rural islands. The government restricted access to these islands, so the authors report that the studied population was nearly homogeneous, which would help rule out other potentially outside cause factors of memory loss. The women were between the ages of 40 and 54. None of them had had a hysterectomy, and none took hormone replacement therapy during the study. All took five cognitive tests designed to assess their memory and cognitive skills at the start of the study, and then again 18 months later. During the study period, 23 percent of the women began to have symptoms of menopause. The researchers then compared the memory of the women who had entered menopause to those who had not, and found very little difference. In four of the five tests, there were no statistically significant differences in the two groups of women.
Only on one test was the difference statistically significant.
That differences were very slight. This test was designed to assess verbal memory and involved showing the women 70 nonsensical figures. Some of the figures were repeated during the test, while most were not. The women were asked whether they had seen the figure earlier.
For women, menopause does not mean you'll develop memory loss.
As you're going through postmenopausal and experiencing symptoms like hot flashes, she said, you may feel lousy and have trouble sleeping, which might temporarily affect your cognitive skills.
Declining estrogen levels does not causes memory loss.
It's not like your memory is bopping along, doing fine and then takes this big dive during menopause, like bone density can. Expert in this matter said they weren't aware of many women who believed that menopause might cause significant memory loss. They also felt that results from this group of women who were so homogeneous might not apply to different groups of women, such as those living in more industrialized society. And they said that other factors that weren't studied could play a role in memory loss, such as hypertension, which can contribute to vascular dementia.
The education backgrounds can play a large role in memory loss.
Its also been proven ed that women speaking more than one language tend to have better and longer memory, and tend to develop dementia at a much more advanced age than the norm. So what are you waiting for to learn another language?
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