A serious post for shitladies especially (long) Neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi (author of Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power) is studying the link between menopause and Alzheimer’s. She is the author of an upcoming book to be called The XX Brain. Here is the link to a long interview between Dr Mosconi and a freelance writer. It covers all the important data to date on the link between menopause and alzheimer's ; here are some highlights : Exercise, we now know, is one of the key risk reducers for Alzheimer’s when done in conjunction with healthy eating, getting enough sleep, and stress reduction. ...women are twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s as men There’s a strong association between early menopause and an increased risk of Alzheimer’s in women Alzheimer’s is not a disease of old age. We tend to associate it with the elderly because that’s when the clinical symptoms become manifest, but in reality, Alzheimer’s begins with negative changes in the brains at least a decade prior. Most often than not, in middle age. Middle age is considered to be 40–60 years old. Estrogen is a really strong neuroprotective hormone. It’s strongly associated with immune system, it’s a neuroplastic hormone, so if you lose it, your brain starts aging faster. They have shown that the microbiome has a huge impact on the health of the brain. So if your bad bacteria outnumber your good bacteria, that has an impact on the brain. Eat healthy. Do not eat processed foods. Processed foods are actually specifically bad news for women and women’s brains. They have been associated with an increased risk of many diseases in women and also with early onset of menopause. 100%. Candy, too. All commercial products to some extent are processed foods. Some are clearly more processed. The Twinkie thing looks like plastic. So the closer it looks to plastic. Soda! No soda. We need to drink water instead of refined sugar, which also affects hormonal balance in the body. There's much more, along with specific things young(er) women can do to protect themselves NOW, so read it HERE And here's the archived version, if you prefer HERE is an article from Discover magazine , December 2018 edition ; it also describes things men and women can do to lower their risk of alzheimer's . HINT : Processed food BAD, exercise an dgreen leafy vegetables GOOD. And an archived version of it, too.