You most likely tend to forget little things once in a while, like names or other small details, more than you did in your young age.

And most of us write this off as a normal process of aging. Nothing to worry about.

But Dutch scientists recently discovered how light memory loss could be an indicator of one of the most serious diseases we face.

In fact, it may leave you dead or paralyzed suddenly at any moment.

I don’t mean to scare you because there is something you can do about this. But you absolutely must take action today.

Just over a year ago, scientists at Erasmus University in Rotterdam decided to turn a normal scientific question on its head.

While scientists and lay people alike understand that stroke causes memory loss because of the brain cells that die when their blood supply is cut off, these researchers wondered whether memory loss could also indicate that a stroke is still coming.

After all, if memory loss indicates that a stroke is likely, you can start receiving treatment and start taking preventative measures and save yourself from a debilitating or deadly attack.

The study followed 9,000 people in Rotterdam over a period of 20 years. They were all 55 years and older and received regular memory exams. By the end of the 20 years, 1,134 of them had suffered a stroke.

Strokes were 20% more likely in the group that started doing poorly on the memory exams. And, interestingly, participants with higher education were 39% more likely to suffer stroke.

So how does memory loss cause or indicate a stroke?

We normally think of a stroke as a sudden event: the blood clot gets stuck or the blood vessels burst, and you’re dead or severely disabled an hour or two later.

But these researchers from this study believe that a stroke actually resembles a gradual event.

Stroke is caused by hardening of blood vessels leading up to or in the brain. Eventually a blood clot will get stuck in those narrowing arteries and stop all blood flow to that part of the brain.

However, long before that happens, blood flow through that blood vessel begins to diminish. and the brain cells located in that part of the brain stop working properly and begin to die off.

To make up for this, cells elsewhere in your brain take over their functions, and you go on functioning. This is called using “cognitive reserves.”

The more cells die, the fewer cognitive reserves your brain has available to compensate. This is when and why the memory loss kicks in.

In other words, memory loss indicates that you have serious blood flow problems in your brain, problems that may cause a stroke at any moment.

Since one of the main risk factors for stroke is high blood pressure, lowering your blood pressure will both diminish your risk of stroke and fix memory loss.

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