Pooping only every 3 or more days linked with cognitive decline, research finds | CNN
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Scientists have found concerning associations between constipation and brain health in the first research to look into this subject.

In the first research to look at constipation’s impact on the aging brain, scientists have found some concerning links.

  • Freeman@lemmy.pub
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    1 year ago

    Compared with people who pooped once a day, constipated participants had significantly worse cognition equivalent to three years more of chronological cognitive aging, the authors found. Increased risk was also found among those who pooped more than twice daily, though these higher odds were small.

    This feels like one of those correlation = causation assumptions.