Chiropractor Fanwood Explains How Working Can Protect Your Brain After a Mild Stroke

Working Can Protect Your Brain After a Mild Stroke

Work may be the answer to slowing cognitive decline among individuals who have suffered a mild stroke.

In a study that included 252 stroke survivors, those who were unemployed were 320% more likely to experience mental decline in the following two years.

These individuals also had a greater risk for depression, unhealthy brain changes, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes.

Study author Dr. Einor Ben Assayag writes, "The message here is 'keep on working.' Rates of death and cognitive decline were higher among the unemployed people we studied.

In fact, being unemployed was by itself a risk factor for cognitive decline and death."

For more information you can visit American Stroke Association, January 2018.

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