Staying single doesn’t spell trouble for your brain
Have you heard the latest “news” that’s grabbing all the headlines?
Get married… and you can kiss your dementia risk goodbye, they say.
Apparently, THAT’S what passes for the very latest in modern medical research!
Yup. All you need to do is find someone willing to love you — or at least tolerate you — for the rest of your life.
Then, you’re set. No brain burps. No fog. No fading memories.
Someone, quick! Ship me a wife! (Preferably a conservative one.)
Because apparently, if I stay a confirmed bachelor, I’m in big trouble — at least according to a new study.
Irreconcilable findings
The latest “breakthrough” from our top research geniuses claims that if you’ve been single all your life, your dementia risk jumps by 42 percent.
And if you WERE married… but are now widowed… that supposed protection wears off, increasing your risk of the disease by 20 percent.
But this study just doesn’t make a lick of sense if you keep trying to follow it.
And I’ll show you how.
So far, we’ve got married people with the lowest risk and single people with the highest — and widows and widowers are somewhere in the middle.
SEEMS to add up, right?
But then it gets weird in a hurry… because DIVORCED people have the same low risk of dementia as married people.
What the heck kind of logic explains that?
LOVE your spouse… and you’re protected. LOVE your spouse and lose him or her… and you’re not. But if you HATE your spouse so much that you rejoin the bachelors and bachelorettes – who have a higher risk of dementia – somehow, you’re STILL protected.
C’mon.
Part of any decent study is what’s known as plausibility. If I did a study that found heart attacks increase when the planets are in a certain alignment, it would never get published by a serious journal… because it’s implausible.
In this case, there’s a tiny touch of plausibility: Married people keep each other mentally engaged and can nag each other to get regular medical care, both of which can help lead to healthy aging.
But BOTH of those factors vanish instantly if you’re divorced (and are in full force if you’re single, but fully engaged with friends and family).
Sounds to me like these researchers are divorced, too… from reality!
Meanwhile, the same mainstream “experts” celebrating this – and the same types of journals that publish this kind of hokum – openly ignore or outright MOCK stuff that HAS been proven in studies to work and IS plausible, like supplements and other nutritional therapies.
In fact, there’s something that could ACTUALLY hold the key to putting the brakes on dementia, and you can pick it up at your local drug store or online: vitamin E. I recommend 400 IU daily.
When you pick out a vitamin E supplement, look for mixed tocopherol. And be sure you’re getting a natural version. Just take a look at the label to be sure it contains 100 percent natural sources.
And if you spot the letters “dl” in a vitamin name, you can be sure that it’s a synthetic version (known as dl-alpha tocopherol).
Good amounts of vitamin E are also found in foods — the top ones being sunflower seeds, almonds, spinach, avocados, and peanuts.
