According to the new study, the researchers say that “they found that women who are aged above 50 years and had breastfed their babies have a better performance for the cognitive tests compared to the women who don’t breastfeed.
Study findings had shown a positive impact among the postmenopausal women who are having cognitive performance and shows the cognitive performance which had long term benefits for a mother brain.
Study Says Breast Feeding Can Prevent Cognitive Declines
The process of breastfeeding is not only about bonding the baby and mother, but it also creates a positive impact on the health front of both of them.
For babies also breastfeeding can be much helpful in countering many diseases, while for mothers also the same is useful at not only the age of being a mom but also a later age when the cognitive skills are impacted in the human body.
Experts have conducted the study with a number of samples from different backgrounds, ages, and medical conditions. Based on many other studies, experts have found that breastfeeding can have better improvements for the child’s health with long-term benefits and their well-being.
This study shows that there are very few people who have looked into the longer-term health effects for the women who are giving breastfeeding their babies.
Molly Fox is the lead researcher and author of this study; she says that “our findings had shown the superior cognitive performance among the women who are aged over 50 and had breastfed” this statement by her suggests the breastfeeding to be neuroprotective later in life.
This study shows that cognitive health is critical among well-being, especially in aging adults where cognition is impaired after 50 years and has a strong predictor for Alzheimer’s disease, leading to dementia and disability cause among older people.
Researchers say that women are compromising about having two-thirds of the Americans who are living with the cause.
Most of the studies show the women’s reproductive life history phases like pregnancy, breastfeeding, menopause, and menstruation which can be linked to the lower and higher risks for developing different health conditions such as breast cancer and depression.
On this note, some other studies also examine breastfeeding with an impact on cognition of long-term effects for women and people who are conflicted by the evidence taken from breastfeeding, which may link for having better cognitive performance and Alzheimer’s risk among the women with postmenopausal.
Helen Lavretsky is the lead researcher and author of this study; she says that “we know that there is some positive correlation in between the lower risk of other disease and breastfeeding which shows the type -2 diabetic people as well as for heart disease people.
She adds the statement that “health conditions are strongly connected to the AD higher risk.”
Dr. Fox stated that “because of the breastfeeding, we can help to regulate the stress and eventually can promote the infant bonding with lower risk for post-partum depression that suggests the acute neurocognitive benefits of the mother.”
Some researchers had suspected the associations might have long-term superior cognitive performances for mothers too.
Researchers had analyzed the data which is collected from the participating women among cross-sectional which is randomized by the control of clinical trials for brain connectivity, cognitive decline, reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease, and geriatric depression.
The study had conducted many clinical trials; among them, two trials were chosen by the 115 women participants where 64 were identified for being depressed while 51 ae non-depressed.
Based on the key findings, the researchers had concluded that “future studies are required for exploring the relation in between the cognitive performance and breastfeeding for the women history among the women diverse groups.”
