Posted on 10/10/2019 6:18:02 AM PDT by RummyChick
A long list of studies in recent years have linked Alzheimer's disease with a lack of sleep.
But getting too much shut-eye may also raise the risk of the cruel memory-robbing disorder, according to research.
Scientists found people who slept for nine hours or more per night showed a significant decline in memory and language skills, early markers of dementia.
Those who got less than six hours were also at risk, with researchers claiming the sleep sweet spot is seven to eight hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Previous studies have shown Alzheimer’s is more prevalent in black and Hispanic people, although the reason why is unclear.”
I see plenty of White people who get it
Interesting. Thanks for posting. Health/life BUMP!
Or maybe the early stages of Alzheimer’s messes with the sleep cycle and suffers of the disease get too much or sometimes I get too little?
Diseases are not always the outcome of poor personal decisions or habits, they are the cause behind them. We can’t seem to shake the idea that sickness is a manifestation of some sort of sin. It often is but it is an always.
Worrying about whether I’m getting too much or too little sleep. Yeah, that’ll help me sleep at night.
Are we going to find out 5 years from now that this is exactly backwards - that 7 to 9 hours is the absolute worst and you really ought to either get less than six or more than 10? Only to find out 5 years beyond then that 8 hours really is the best?
Could it be that retired people do not have to use an alarm clock but get up when they please, thus increasing the possibility of more hours of sleep. Retired people are also in the age group that most frequently get Alzheimer’s. Perhaps it is only co-occuring not casual?
Genetics dictates a hell of a lot when it comes to health... yes some personal decisions can impact it... but genetics is a HUGE factor..
After all, would anyone have taken the bet that Bob Dylan and Kieth Richards and Ozzy Ozborne would still be alive in 2019 back in 1985?
Not all sleep is the same... 6-8 hours of sleep for someone with sever sleep apnea, is not the same as even 4 hours of sleep for someone without it.
I'd love to get a complete 7 or 8 hours of good sleep. As it stands now, I'll go to bed at about 9:30 then wake up at 3:00 a.m. and can't fall back asleep.......So I just lay there.
sigh, i barely get about 4.5 if im lucky....i hate my life cause i so damn tired most of the time...
yes, ive done the doctor visits, had meds, tests, im physically fine....i just dont sleep well...havent for decades now....it sux
i wouldnt know how to react if i got the traditional 8 hours of real sleep...
The real question is what doesn’t cause Altzheimer’s. Not enough sleep, too much sleep, not keeping your mind active, keeping your mind too active, aluminum in the diet, good Lord. Either way you’re screwed. Then there’s Parkinson’s, obesity, diabetes, arthritis. Basically getting old sucks, mmkay?
My wife and I own a personal care home with about 45 residents. They’re all Caucasian and over three quarters of them - including my mother - have some form of dementia, some of which are terribly severe.
Here is a tip for those that have Amazon Prime
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Works for me. Had to use it last night at 2 AM when I woke up and couldnt get back to sleep. You can download it to your Fire tablet and just let it run.
Listening to these idiotic studies can shorten your life!
Is that correlation or causation? My grandmother in the years before she was diagnosed was tired out and slept a lot because trying to cope with day to day mental exertion in the early stages of dementia can be exhausting.
Whatever study you believe...another will come out that is the opposite.
I just do what I want..come what may. If I croak out early..so be it.
I watch a lot of youtube health/diet videos and some are calling Altzheimers type 3 diabetes.
High carb diets lead to insulin resistance, making it hard for glucose to enter brain cells.
Dr. George Cahill found (1970) that in starvation, 66% of the brains energy is from ketones, the rest from glucose.
So, switch to a high fat diet and make ketones, which readily enter brain cells. Dr. Dominic D’Agostino says with a blood ketone reading of 1.0, about 10% of the brains energy is being supplied by ketones.
Too little, too much...Let’s face it, medicine has no idea about Alzheimers/dementia. They tell us to do this, don’t do that and it’s all just window dressing. Most of the people I know who ended up with dementia had active minds and bodies until they were struck down.
I follow the tried and true method for regulating sleep.
I go to bed when sleepy.
I get up when I awaken.
Every single day.
What a diaper load! The amount of sleep needed is going to vary for many reasons. Is that person taking a medication that makes them sleep more? Drinking more than a glass of alcohol? Smoking dope? Working physically hard thereby needing more sleep? Genetics?
I’d toss this study right in the circular file where it belongs.
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