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How a high salt diet may lead to cognitive decline - C C - Oct 26, 2019
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326792.php
INTRO: New research suggests that a diet high in salt may promote cognitive decline by destabilizing levels of the protein tau. Excessive levels of tau are a hallmark of dementia. Dr. Giuseppe Faraco, an assistant professor of research in neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, is the lead author of the new study, which appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience. As Dr. Faraco and team explain in their paper, an excessive intake of salt has always had associations with poor cerebrovascular function, and high salt intake is an independent, well established risk factor for dementia. But the more intriguing question is, how does excessive salt trigger dementia? (MORE)