{"id":10870,"date":"2013-09-16T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/6-things-you-need-to-know-about-women-aging-and-brain-health\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:57","slug":"6-things-you-need-to-know-about-women-aging-and-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/6-things-you-need-to-know-about-women-aging-and-brain-health\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things You Need To Know About Women, Aging And Brain Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-link field-field-link-original-article\">\u00a0Americans are living longer than ever, and women tend outlive men: The average life expectancy for females in the United States is now roughly 81, compared to 76 for males, according to recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/hus12.pdf#018\" target=\"_hplink\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>As a result, women are disproportionately affected by many of the health issues associated with brain aging. Yet studies exploring brain diseases like Alzheimer&#8217;s have focused largely on men, argues Lynn Posluns, founder of the Canada-based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/womensbrainhealth.org\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Women&#8217;s Brain Health Initiative<\/a>, a nonprofit that raises money to address that research gap.<\/p>\n<p>As researchers begin to tackle questions about how aging influences women&#8217;s brains, they&#8217;re learning more about what women can do to stay &#8220;brain healthy longer,&#8221; Posluns said. The Women&#8217;s Brain Health Initiative is dedicated to educating women about brain health and combating the sense &#8212; especially prevalent among young women, Posluns said &#8212; that brain health is beyond their control. In that spirit, here are six things about brain health and aging that all women should know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/10\/women-brain-health_n_3899555.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&amp;src=sp&amp;comm_ref=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Americans are living longer than ever, and women tend outlive men: The average life expectancy for females in the United States is now roughly 81, compared to 76 for males, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}