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To: Saulamanca who wrote (21479)10/25/2019 12:01:45 PM
From: Saulamanca  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 49201
 
High-salt diet promotes cognitive impairment through the Alzheimer-linked protein tau

New study in Nature finds that a high-salt diet may negatively affect cognitive function in pre-clinical setting

Date: October 23, 2019

Source: Weill Cornell Medicine

Summary: Investigators sought to understand the series of events that occur between salt consumption and poor cognition and concluded that lowering salt intake and maintaining healthy blood vessels in the brain may 'stave off' dementia. Accumulation of tau deposits has been implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease in humans.

sciencedaily.com