Too much sleep 'could give you dementia': People who get nine hours a night are more at risk of...

dm ^ | 10/10/2019 | cnnor boyd

[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.

[Yardstick]

I sleep in a cocoon filled with raw eggs, black coffee, and ground beef.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I found a free sample of the Sleep Learning System. I can totally see that helping to lull you back to sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp7Jpe44Y_Q

[suthener]

“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.”

My father and I lived completely different lives from a health stand point. He drank and smoked..a lot. He also served in two wars for a total of 4 years. That can’t be good for you. I worked out, jogged, and ate what most would call a somewhat healthy diet. He died of a heart attack at 58, I had a cardiac arrest at 59. I often wonder if genetics is ever considered in these studies.

[9422WMR]

Well that puts me in the clear! Sleep about 4 hours then awake for two and a final hour of deep sleep before the alarm goes off at 5! 😔

[9422WMR]

4 out of 5 doctors agree that 90% of their diagnosis is a wild ass guess.
That’s my study!!

[Lizavetta]

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.

I hear that.

[Vermont Lt]

Honestly, the white people live longer. Look in your daily obituaries for some evidence. The average black man is not living well into his 70s. White women over 90 fill up the nursing homes.

I think studies like this might be creating cusual relationships where there might not be. For example, I lay down for 45 minutes every afternoon. I have been doing it for years. It started when I worked 3-11pm many nights. It made me “fresh” and my reflexes better (I was a college sports photographer).

Do they count daytime naps? Because while I might have hit 9 hours in a day, I almost never got 8 in a row.

[RummyChick]

I don’t even do what they are instructing you to do. I just let my subconscious take over.

It took a few days for it to kick in..now I just put it on and it knocks me out.

He has several in the series. Some have a woman’s voice. I use the man’s voice. I don’t use any in the system but the one I posted simply because that one works for me

I suggest people who need to get to sleep but can’t to put this on and see if it helps.

[Boogieman]

“showed a significant decline in memory and language skills, early markers of dementia”

Or getting odd amounts of sleep just makes you foggy for entirely different reasons, and it has nothing to do with dementia.

[RummyChick]

Saw another study that the short nap helps much more than a longer one. They used 20 minutes but 45 should fit in there.If I lay down when tired in the afternoon I am out for 3 hours..every time

[bgill]

Or when the spouse is up all night making noise and the dog wakes you to be let out.

[Jim Noble]

How about, if your brain can routinely sleep for nine hours, it's different from most people's?

Another good example of post hoc ergo propter hoc.

[cgbg]

White women over 90 fill up the nursing homes.

Scientific studies have shown that the white men over 90 have been heard saying something about their "cold dead hands" when someone tried to drag _them_ off into a nursing home. :-)

[dfwgator]

The average black man is not living well into his 70s.

The typical black diet is atrocious, even compared to white people's diet. Poor choices and lack of nutritional education are the culprits.

[I want the USA back]

Confusing correlation with causation, as do most of those idiotic “studies.”

The person with dementia needs more sleep. Sleep does not cause dementia.

Remember the “study” about children with nightlights in their bedroom becoming nearsighted? Multiple idiots rushed to warn parents not to use nightlights or their kids would become myopic.

[faucetman]

What CRAP! These people are like weathermen (meteorologists, lol). They can’t even get tomorrow’s weather right.

Global cooling/global warming

Too much sleep/too little sleep

eat eggs/don’t eat eggs/eat eggs

Are these same people pollsters in election years.

[BunnySlippers]

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[LouAvul]

Interesting. Last week (I think?) I read on FR that 8+ hours sleep each night is helpful to prevent dementia.

I also read that wine is good. Then I read that wine is bad.

I read that meat is good. Then I read that meat is bad.

Nothing like studies conducted by parties with a vested interest/agenda to ascertain truth.

[nicollo]

It, may not help to stay asleep, but to fall asleep I put on a monotone podcast, tends to be science, literature or history, not current events or anything excitable with voice tone or background noises/ music.

[Hot Tabasco]

It, may not help to stay asleep, but to fall asleep I put on a monotone podcast

I turn on a recorded TV program when I get in bed and I'm a sleep within 15 minutes.........only to half wake up a couple hours later and turn off the TV..........