{"id":1897,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/hot-and-cold-homes-could-cause-dementia\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","slug":"hot-and-cold-homes-could-cause-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/hot-and-cold-homes-could-cause-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot and cold homes could cause dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-01-21 14:15:18<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Hot and cold homes could increase the risk of getting dementia.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers from Harvard University found that heat could lead to brain damage due to excess sweating and dehydration while cold properties may cause blood vessels to constrict and cause a decline in blood flow to the brain.<BR><br \/>\nThe team advised a regulated temperature between 20 degrees and 24 degrees as the ideal range to maintain a healthy brain.<BR><br \/>\nTheir conclusion came after monitoring dozens of people aged 65 and older for a year &#8211; with the cognitive decline being self-tested or told to researchers.<BR><br \/>\nWith this, the researchers accepted that the study could not 100 per cent prove differences in home temperatures caused problems with brain efficiency.<BR><br \/>\nThe team said: &#8220;Our results suggest that even under the current climate a considerable portion of older adults encounter indoor temperatures detrimental to their cognitive abilities. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Climate change may exacerbate this problem, particularly among low-income and underserved older adults. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Addressing this issue in public health and housing policy is essential to building climate-resiliency in this vulnerable population.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xgs2h.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-01-21 14:15:18 Hot and cold homes could increase the risk of getting dementia. Researchers from Harvard University found that heat could lead to brain damage due to excess sweating and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}