{"id":25196,"date":"2022-03-12T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=25196"},"modified":"2022-03-07T02:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T07:27:52","slug":"alzheimers-caused-by-this-hormone-deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2022\/03\/12\/alzheimers-caused-by-this-hormone-deficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer’s Caused By This Hormone Deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alzheimer'sHaving enough of this specific hormone can cut your risk of Alzheimer\u2019s by 80%, according to a new study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is by far the single biggest Alzheimer\u2019s factor ever discovered.<\/p>\n

So you absolutely must load up on this hormone naturally. Fortunately, that isn\u2019t so hard to do.<\/p>\n

Testosterone is the male sex hormone that is responsible for sex drive, sperm production, big muscles, and aggression.<\/p>\n

Women’s bodies produce testosterone too, but at much lower levels than men’s bodies. This has recently given rise to a body of research investigating a possible link between low testosterone and increased dementia risk.<\/p>\n

The latest contribution to this research comes from a team led by scientists from the University of Western Australia in Perth, who used data collected by the UK Biobank, a database that holds genetic and health data on more than 500,000 people.<\/p>\n

They obtained information for upper middle-aged and elderly men and compiled a sample of 159,411 men with an average age of 61, who were followed over a period of seven years.<\/p>\n

The information included testosterone levels in their blood, as well as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses.<\/p>\n

During the seven years, 826 developed dementia, including 288 with Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n

The most important findings were that men with the lowest testosterone levels were 43% more likely to develop dementia and 80% more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than those with the highest testosterone levels.<\/p>\n

They controlled for age, cardiovascular disease, and other factors that may have influenced their results.<\/p>\n

Previous research findings have been inconsistent on this relationship, although this is by far the largest study on this question.<\/p>\n

If these findings are correct, it won’t help you to start testosterone supplementation, because a 2017 study in JAMA<\/em> with 788 subjects found that testosterone supplementation did not work to prevent dementia in elderly men with low testosterone and memory problems.<\/p>\n

The better approach is to help your body produce more of its own testosterone naturally, especially since testosterone does drop as you age.<\/p>\n

How can you do this?<\/p>\n

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1. Exercise daily. The scientific literature is replete with studies showing that physically active men have higher testosterone levels than sedentary men have. A 2007 study in the European Journal of Applied Physiology<\/em> showed that this was especially true for weight training.<\/p>\n

2. Keep your weight under control. Many studies, including one in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition<\/em> in 2014, have shown that overweight people have lower testosterone.<\/p>\n

3. Eat a balanced diet. Since numerous studies show that testosterone is higher in people who eat enough protein, healthy fats, and carbs, dropping any food group from your diet is not a good idea.<\/p>\n

4. Cut your stress and relax. When you stress, your body secretes cortisol, and cortisol reduces testosterone. Researchers have known this for decades, as demonstrated by a 1983 study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

With these habits in place, you will put yourself in a good position to prevent low testosterone-linked dementia.<\/p>\n

But another factor is even more important for your brain than testosterone. Load up on this one free ingredient and feel how your brain immediately turbocharges\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having enough of this specific hormone can cut your risk of Alzheimer\u2019s by 80%, according to a new study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia. This is by far the single biggest Alzheimer\u2019s factor ever discovered. So you absolutely must load up on this hormone naturally. Fortunately, that isn\u2019t so hard to do. Testosterone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":25276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[135,36,165,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alzheimer","category-articles","category-brain","category-dementia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Testosterone-430983581.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25277,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25196\/revisions\/25277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}