Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:https://www.instagram.com/p/DF_AxX3RDOw/Regularly consuming hot dogs and bacon could increase your chances of developing dementia by 13%. Eating those steaks consistently leads to a 16% higher risk of cognitive decline.  A new study by researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Harvard School of Public Health followed more than 133,000 (133,771) individuals for up to 43 years.As few as two slices of bacon consumed regularly accelerates your cognitive aging by 1.6 years and triggers a cognitive decline that is an early marker of dementia.  Why?  Saturated fats, salt, and a gut-derived compound called TMAO, trimethylamine N-oxide, are the brain-damaging culprits.The good news.  Substituting fish, nuts, or legumes for the franks, bacon, and t-bones could reduce your dementia risk by 19%.https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/red-meat-increases-risk-of-dementiahttps://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000210286#dementia #redmeat #bacon #hotdogs #tmao