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A recent new study indicates that estrogen treatments may actually increase the mental performance in women. Research from the University of Florida indicates that while it is useful for some medical conditions that it could also help sharpen cognitive skills.
The study claims that the moments women experience as part of the aging process where we tend to forget things are generally due to a lack of estrogen. The increased estrogen more or less restores the youthfulness of the memory, bringing a woman back to her younger days. The scientists suggest that with this knowledge, there are drugs that could be developed to assist women with the memory failure experienced with aging.
Research has shown that by enabling a female mouse to use her own estrogen receptors, rather than feeding her estrogen supplements mental function increased.
The estrogen receptors in the brain become much less receptive to the hormone as a woman ages as the amount of estrogen produced in the body decreases. Knowing this, and applying the same principles from the research study would seem to suggest that the development of drugs to reactivate the estrogen receptors in the brain would benefit post menopausal women, in keeping them more mentally alert, and decreasing their likelihood of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
While all of this seems to be fantastic news and a life altering development, there is a downside to excess estrogen in the system. Excess estrogen has been linked to an increased risk for breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke. This is why there are so many warnings present on birth control today.
To combat this issue, scientists are considering the use of gene therapy to direct the estrogen. In the brain, estrogen has very positive effects, but elsewhere in the body can increase the risk for cancer, and lead to weight gain. In the case of the mice used in the study, their ovaries were removed at a young age, and therefore the amounts of estrogen in the system were low. The scientists were able to recover the ability to produce estrogen by connecting the correct gene to the receptor in the appropriate location on the brain. The results indicate that even though the estrogen receptor has been hindered throughout their adult lives, that the correction with gene therapy still allowed for a remarkable improvement in learning and memory abilities. The discovery is certainly a great step forward.
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A recent new study indicates that estrogen treatments may actually increase the mental performance in women. Research from the University of Florida indicates that while it is useful for some medical conditions that it could also help sharpen cognitive skills.
The study claims that the moments women experience as part of the aging process where we tend to forget things are generally due to a lack of estrogen. The increased estrogen more or less restores the youthfulness of the memory, bringing a woman back to her younger days. The scientists suggest that with this knowledge, there are drugs that could be developed to assist women with the memory failure experienced with aging.
Research has shown that by enabling a female mouse to use her own estrogen receptors, rather than feeding her estrogen supplements mental function increased.
The estrogen receptors in the brain become much less receptive to the hormone as a woman ages as the amount of estrogen produced in the body decreases. Knowing this, and applying the same principles from the research study would seem to suggest that the development of drugs to reactivate the estrogen receptors in the brain would benefit post menopausal women, in keeping them more mentally alert, and decreasing their likelihood of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
While all of this seems to be fantastic news and a life altering development, there is a downside to excess estrogen in the system. Excess estrogen has been linked to an increased risk for breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke. This is why there are so many warnings present on birth control today.
To combat this issue, scientists are considering the use of gene therapy to direct the estrogen. In the brain, estrogen has very positive effects, but elsewhere in the body can increase the risk for cancer, and lead to weight gain. In the case of the mice used in the study, their ovaries were removed at a young age, and therefore the amounts of estrogen in the system were low. The scientists were able to recover the ability to produce estrogen by connecting the correct gene to the receptor in the appropriate location on the brain. The results indicate that even though the estrogen receptor has been hindered throughout their adult lives, that the correction with gene therapy still allowed for a remarkable improvement in learning and memory abilities. The discovery is certainly a great step forward.
© Hairstyles.ws
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