Study: Elderly Memory Loss Due to Lack of Deep Sleep

Dailytech ^ | January 29, 2013 8:23 AM | Tiffany Kaiser

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Varda]

I've been taking two things which counteract this. One is a 50mg capsule of progesterone (prescription) and the other is melatonin (3mg pill broken in half). Progesterone fixes REM sleep and melatonin helps deep sleep. I never take both together but if I wanted to be out for 9 hours straight I guess I'd try it.

[A'elian' nation]

Scientists must be suffering from short term memory loss themselves as it wasn’t long ago that short term memory loss was due to watching too much internet porn.

http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2012/12/17/study-watching-porn-tied-to-short-term-memory-loss/

Guess my problem is not getting enough sleep from watching too much internet porn . . . sigh.

[whatexit]

Berkley? Them being stoned couldn’t have anything to do with it, right? Naw...

[Dr. Sivana]

Slow waves are generated by the middle frontal lobe, and as this region deteriorates with age, the elderly tend to lose the ability to experience long REM sleep

So THAT'S where the bladder is located.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

God Help me. I’m going to be completely senile by the age of 55 if this is true. I am a very light sleeper.

[Utah Binger]

Two vodkas at bedtime gives me a solid seven hours.

[Carriage Hill]

"...scientists have found a connection between the amount of sleep one gets in their old age and the quality of their memory. The UC Berkeley team, led by Matthew Walker, believes that forgetfulness in old age may be attributed...

Okay, I give-up. Which is it?

[basil]

Progesterone comes with a lot of bad side effects..............

[Varda]

Like what?

[diamond6]

Are you taking Progesterone every day? Is that safe?

[basil]

Do a search-—many side affects.

[I want the USA back]

This is a rare study where they seem to get the cause and effect right. Half the time in the “studies” they mix up what caused what.

[Varda]

I take progesterone 4 days then switch to melatonin for 3 days. That works for me. I use compounded bioidentical progesterone in a low dose (50mg) and it is very safe. I used it continuously for the first couple of years but now I don’t need it everyday anymore.

[Varda]

Bioidentical progesterone is not the problem in the studies. The chemical composition does matter. Progestins are not progesterone.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[the_Watchman]

You can never depend on a news story writer to faithfully convey the full merit of a study. However, the cited experiment would seem to demonstrate correlation, but not necessarily causation.

A good follow-up, which they may very well have done, would seem to be to take these same young folks in the study and see how their short term memory responded to having their REM sleep disturbed.

I also did not see the relationship between the ability to learn and the long term memory loss that I see in myself as I age. In particular, my memory problems relate to searching my long term memory. I have trouble recalling names of people, objects, and concepts. This study seemed to focus on processing short term memory.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Didn’t I read about this yesterday...? Maybe not...I don’t know...

[Free Vulcan]

A bottle of wine or a few beers will get ya some good REM sleep too.