[ConservativeMind]

This is sleep time devoid of other obvious sickness or injury.

[ConservativeMind]

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[fwdude]

Wow, completely counter-intuitive. A health group I’ve been a member of has pushed 9-10 hours of sleep as the goal.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I read this story and immediately felt like taking a nap.

[Fresh Wind]

Early to bed and early to rise...uhhhh, you know, the thing.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I wonder if those who went to sleep earlier and slept longer did so because they were generally less busy and involved in things.

[Psalm 73]

I average 6.5 hours of sleep a night, dementia has been setting in for years....

[ClearCase_guy]

I go to sleep around midnight and sleep less than 5 hours, so I guess I’m set.

[CodeToad]

Dumb people shouldn’t publish. They might as well as say those who drink water die.

[DannyTN]

But if you get less than 7 hours sleep, you run a higher risk of Stress granules which has been correlated with prostrate cancer.

Trying to get the optimum number of sleep hours could keep you up at night.

[mistfree]

Check for sleep apnea. The apnea intrupts sleep because you stop breathing and makes you sleep longer. On top of that your blood O2 drops way down which accelerates dementia.

[sit-rep]

I’d be lucky to get a full 7 in... Even if I go out on a Saturday night and get plowed, I’m still up by 4;30 or 5AM that Sunday morning... It’s a curse!!

[nitzy]

This seems like an:

“eggs are bad / no wait....eggs are good / actually... it turns out they are bad / hold on....”

type of scenario.

[Sparticus]

Correlation is not causation. They are not claiming that longer sleep causes dementia. It's more likely that a symptom of the earliest stages of dementia is longer sleeping.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good news for me…to bed at 11 pm and rarely make it past 6 or 6-1/2 hours.

[TankerKC]

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Or, people with dementia sleep longer.

[Myrddin]

I'm up at 7 AM and often work until after midnight. My wife gets up at 5:45 AM for a 7 AM shift dispatching police/fire/EMS. The offset avoids clashing with access to the shower and kitchen. I will like more than 5 hours sleep, but it doesn't happen often. 8 hours happens a few days each year.

[Faith65]

Thanks.
BKMK

[Seaplaner]

Sleep apnea is positively correlated with dementia.

Many untreated and/or undiagnosed apneic individuals sleep longer because their sleep is fragmented and non-restorative.

Get a sleep study, my good FRiends! Keep your precious cognitive abilities and memory.

Sleep apnea is treatable without drugs, and the cpap/apap is much easier to adapt to than some claim.

[faucetman]

BULLSHIRT!

NONSENSE!

SCIENCE?

[thesearethetimes...]

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