{"id":3652,"date":"2025-11-11T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/listening-to-music-slashes-dementia-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:02:22","slug":"listening-to-music-slashes-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/listening-to-music-slashes-dementia-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to music slashes dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-11-11 14:02:20<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Tuning in to your favourite songs could help protect against dementia.<BR><br \/>\nScientists at Monash University in Australia tracked more than 10,800 adults aged over 70 and found that those who regularly listened to music had a 39 per cent lower risk of developing the condition compared with those who rarely did. <BR><br \/>\nPlaying a musical instrument also reduced the risk by 35 per cent, while combining both habits lowered dementia risk by a third.<BR><br \/>\nThe study revealed that frequent music listeners not only had fewer cases of dementia, but also performed better on tests of memory and overall cognition.<BR><br \/>\nThe research&#8217;s senior author Professor Joanne Ryan said: &#8220;Evidence suggests that brain ageing is not just based on age and genetics but can be influenced by one\u2019s own environmental and lifestyle choices. Our study suggests that lifestyle-based interventions, such as listening and\/or playing music can promote cognitive health.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nWith no cure for dementia, researchers say such accessible lifestyle changes could play a vital role in delaying or even preventing the onset of the disease.<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>2025-11-11 14:02:20 Tuning in to your favourite songs could help protect against dementia. Scientists at Monash University in Australia tracked more than 10,800 adults aged over 70 and found that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3652","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\/3652","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=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}