The cognitive of breastfeeding women show better than non-breastfeeding.👶👶👶

It is well known about breastfeeding is good for the babies, but there were few studies have focused on the health effects of breastfeeding on mothers. Recently, a research showed that breastfeeding may also have long-term benefits for the mother's own health. Compared with women who have not breastfed their children, women who have breastfed their children carried out better performance on cognitive ability after the age of 50. 

The relationship between cognitive ability and Alzheimer's disease

Cognitive ability is closely related to the health of the elderly. However, cognitive ability will continue to be declined after the age of 50 and it may also become a important factor in predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD). Alzheimer's disease is one of the main manifestations of dementia and one of the main causes of damage to the health of the elderly. Moreover, women are more likely to suffer from AD than men. 

Breastfeeding benefit to the mother's cognitive ability

There were some studies have found that breastfeeding can help improve baby's emotion, reduce mother's stress and the risk of postpartum depression. This suggests that breastfeeding may be have great benefit to the mother's neurocognitive ability and may strengthen the mother's long-term cognitive ability.

In that research, the researchers investigate more than a hundred women with or with out depression. All participants completed a series of comprehensive psychological tests that measured learning ability, executive function, processing speed and so on. They also answered a questionnaire about their reproductive life history which included the age at they began menstruation, the number of complete and incomplete pregnancies, the length of time each baby was breastfeeding and their menopausal age. None of the participants were diagnosed with dementia or other mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, alcohol or drug dependence, neurological disorders. They had been prevented to take any psychoactive drugs during the research. There were also no significant differences between depressed and non-depressed participants in terms of age, race, education or other cognition. Whether they were depression, the results also showed that women who had breastfed performed better than women who had not breastfed.

Whether they were depression or not, the results also showed that women who had breastfed was performed better than women who had not breastfed.

Researches need to explore the relationship between breastfeeding history and cognitive performance in a larger and more diverse group of women. It is important to better understand the impact of breastfeeding on women's health.

For more detail, read the research article👇👇👇

Women who breastfeed exhibit cognitive benefits after age 50. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoab027

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