A new study has she'd more light on the link between abdominal fat and memory loss. The original discovery was made in 2010 but the link between fat and memory loss / dementia has been mysterious.
That is until now. Researchers have found a possible cause. Scientific American recently published a study that suggests "your liver could be eating your brain."
How? Well, the liver burns belly fat using a protein called PPARalpha which happens to be the same protein the hippocampus uses to process memory.
If you have a lot of excess fat, the liver needs to work overtime. If it runs out of PPARalpha, it'll take it from other parts of their body, including the brain.
The result? Obese people are 3.6 times more likely to develop dementia than skinny people.
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