What is dementia?
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The brain is an organ, and like any organ, it can be atrophy for many reasons, and this atrophy is what we call dementia. This damage can come from general aging, but also stress, insomnia, nutritional deficit, and more can make this damage increase over time.
It can also be caused by physical damage like CTE or neurological disorders like Alzhiemers’s that can speed up the atrophy of the brain.
Brain atrophy will happen to anyone who lives long enough, and you can take steps now to reduce your risk of dementia in old age. It develops at different speeds for everyone based on a wide range of factors but can never be reversed.
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