{"id":2875,"date":"2025-06-19T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/busy-social-life-during-50s-can-signify-alzheimers-disease\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:11:31","slug":"busy-social-life-during-50s-can-signify-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/busy-social-life-during-50s-can-signify-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy social life during 50s can signify Alzheimer&#039;s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-19 13:11:29<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A busy social life in your 50s could be an indicator of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<BR><br \/>\nA massive study of almost half a million Brits aged 40 and older found that people with a higher genetic risk for Alzheimer\u2019s tended to report two per cent more social activity and three per cent less isolation in their 50s. <BR><br \/>\nDr. Ashwin Kotwal, lead researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), said: &#8220;We don&#8217;t know if they\u2019re chasing more chatter or if others are rallying around them. Their social lives may expand in these early stages.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nTraditional wisdom suggests friendships and family time protect brain health by boosting &#8220;cognitive reserve&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nBut this study highlights a reversal to the trend and suggests that alarm bells should ring if a person&#8217;s schedule becomes jam packed for no obvious reason.<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\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-19 13:11:29 A busy social life in your 50s could be an indicator of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. A massive study of almost half a million Brits aged 40 and older found&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","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\/2875","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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}