@the_control_code: You told me about your grandmothers. So I checked. Two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients are women, and the standard explanation is that women just live longer. But researchers now say longevity doesn’t explain all of it (Stanford Medicine, 2026). The most common cause of traumatic brain injury in women isn’t sports, but intimate partner violence, at over 5x the rate of sport-related concussions every year (BrightFocus Foundation, 2025). Nearly 1 in 3 women experience IPV in their lifetime, and of those, a vast majority sustain at least one TBI (Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2024; WHO). In IPV cases serious enough to suspect brain injury, as many as 92% involve blows to the head, strangulation, or both, yet there’s still no clinical guideline to document it (Wellington, Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 2024). TBI more than doubles Alzheimer’s risk in some populations and lays down the exact proteins the disease is made of (Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2024). Strangulation adds ischemic-anoxic injury (oxygen starvation) which is a second injury mechanism, almost entirely female, that no concussion protocol was built to catch (Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2024). Your grandmothers weren’t a coincidence. The research is only now catching up to what you already noticed. Save this. Send it to someone who needs it. — FULL SOURCES 1. “Why women get Alzheimer’s more often than men” Stanford Medicine / Stanford Report (2026) 2. “Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and Alzheimer’s Risk” BrightFocus Foundation (2025) (the 5x figure) 3. “Is Intimate Partner Violence a Risk Factor for Alzheimer’s Disease?” Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences (2024) (tau/amyloid; anoxic injury; IPV/TBI prevalence) 4. Wellington CL et al., “Investigating intimate partner violence as a dementia risk factor” Alzheimer’s & Dementia (2024) (the 92% figure; no clinical guideline) 5. Murchland AR et al., “Intimate partner violence and cognitive functioning — toward quantifying dementia risk” — Alzheimer’s & Dementia (2025) (Nurses’ Health Study II) 6. Cations M, Keage HAD et al., “Intimate Partner Violence and Risk for Mortality and Incident Dementia in Older Women” Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2022) (Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health) 7. World Health Organization — IPV global prevalence (~30% of women) #CoerciveControl #DomesticViolenceAwareness #TBI #Alzheimers #BrainInjury

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