Posted on 11/17/2020 11:19:21 AM PST by RummyChick
During deep sleep, the brain appears to wash away waste products that increase the risk for Alzheimer's disease.
A host of new research studies suggest that this stage of sleep — when dreams are rare and the brain follows a slow, steady beat – can help reduce levels of beta-amyloid and tau, two hallmarks of the disease.
"There is something about this deep sleep that is helping protect you," says Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Death is pretty deep sleep.....................
Back to bed for me then.
Doesn’t seem to have worked with Joe “Day Sleeper Do Not Disturb” Biden.
Makes sense to me, my father had sleep apnea and ended up with Alzheimer’s.
Joe’s problem is that he never really ever wakes up.
Good point! :)
I’m a world class sleeper. Can easily sleep 10 hours/night. Friends know they cannot call me before 10 a.m. So do I go to the head of the class —or what?
I hear Biden is quite the light sleeper.
My Fitbit gives me a sleep report which includes “deep sleep”. I wonder if that is equivalent to what they are talking about.
Also, it would have been nice if they had said how much deep sleep is normal and how much is required.
The article is too sketchy to be useful.
You don’t know what “what” is? Not a good sign.
I have sleep apnea but I use a machine to help me sleep. I am an early adopter of the technology. I tell you what, I am a world champion sleeper. My wife will wake up after 5 hours and not be able to go back to sleep. I can go from 9 pm until 11 the next morning. All I need is darkness and quiet.
Just got a fitbit. It says I get very little deep sleep. But then it consistently gives my poor sleep for less than my hour goals high marks even though I’m awake 10x a night according to the data it is tracking.
It’s my first fitbit-type device and I’m pretty skeptical of everything except maybe the heart rate. And the app is typical garbage written by modern marketing morons. I’m hoping against hope that they hired decent hardware guys to design the device itself before handing the app off to the millenial soy brigade.
Apologies for the grumpiness. I’m old enough to remember when devices that were pathetic by modern standards still had interfaces that were light years ahead of anything produced today in terms of usability despite being built with rudimentary or even no development tools. Hardly anything today seems to be designed with function in mind, but it shoar is purty.
Does Transcendental Meditation accomplish the same “ dishwasher effect “ ?
I am screwed. I have chronic insomnia.
beta-amyloid is the body’s attempt to repair the brain. Shooting beta-amyloid into mice with MS results in the mice being healed from MS within two weeks.
Dang, I have to wake up and go pee every two hours...
This is interesting. My FIL has dementia and was doing major sundowning (up and agitated all night, sleeping most of the day)
We started him on melatonin a week ago. For four days straight he has been able to fall asleep without fidgeting for hours, and sleeps all night. He has become more lucid during the day, not by any means normal, but a lot better
Please look into melatonin, ornithine, reducing lights in the evening, shifting screen colors to reds, and magnesium.
You might find something useful amongst those.
I’ll bet you generally don’t nap during the day. Would I be correct?
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