{"id":49214,"date":"2026-11-05T23:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/estrogen-may-play-an-important-role-in-long-term-brain-health\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T23:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:34:49","slug":"estrogen-may-play-an-important-role-in-long-term-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/estrogen-may-play-an-important-role-in-long-term-brain-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Estrogen May Play an Important Role in Long-Term Brain Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/estrogen\/guide\/\">estrogen<\/a> over one\u2019s lifetime may be linked to healthier blood vessels in women\u2019s brains later in life, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>At age 70, women who had used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/womens-health\/hormone-therapy-for-menopause\/\">hormone therapy<\/a> around menopause had fewer signs of damage to the brain\u2019s tiniest blood vessels compared with peers who\u2019d never taken hormones. The research also suggests a protective link to taking birth control pills earlier in life and having more years between a first period and menopause.<\/p>\n<p>The findings add more evidence that women\u2019s hormonal history, from the menstrual first period through menopause, is tied to brain health decades later, says lead author\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/profile\/giulia-lorenzon\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giulia Lorenzon, PhD<\/a>, a researcher at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and former postdoctoral researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is important to recognize that reproductive history is an important part of women\u2019s overall health history,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/womens-health\/estrogen-may-play-important-role-in-long-term-brain-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting more estrogen over one\u2019s lifetime may be linked to healthier blood vessels in women\u2019s brains later in life, a new study suggests. At age 70, women who had used hormone therapy around menopause had fewer signs of damage to the brain\u2019s tiniest blood vessels compared with peers who\u2019d never taken hormones. The research also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[36,3340],"class_list":["post-49214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-mixtv","tag-women39s-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}