Study examines association between sleep medication use and risk of dementia

Medical Xpress / University of California, San Francisco / Journal of Alzheimer's Disease ^ | Jan. 31, 202: | Suzanne Leigh / Yue Leng et al

[ConservativeMind]

It seems sleep medicines are not as good as one would like.

Try to find an alternate method or a root cause, and treat that.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Olog-hai]

Brandon used a lot of sleep meds . . . ?

[xp38]

melatonin doesn’t seem to be mentioned

[MarMema]

I love relora.

[EEGator]

Meditation, no afternoon caffeine, and a magnesium drink.

Maybe watch Kristen Stewart’s acting…

[1FreeAmerican]

Yes it is mentioned at the end of the excerpt.

[EEGator]

For some, like me, melatonin is the Devil.

Sit straight up, heart pounding and sweating bullets.

[ConservativeMind]

From the write up:

“If medication is to be used, melatonin might be a safer option…”

[Eccl 10:2]

Melatonin isn’t a drug, per se. Your body naturally produces melatonin. But I understand taking it long term has its effect, as in you body stops producing it naturally, so it ends up playing havoc with your circadian rhythm.

[algore]

I have been seeing lots of these articles lately, for all kinds of different sleeping aids.

This is the third ‘ambien” article I have seen this week, last month it was

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-drugs-like-benadryl-linked-increased-dementia-risk-201501287667

I am guessing there is some new wonder mRna weight loss drug that is about to be released which has a side effect of helping you sleep well at night.

[xp38]

I must of dozed off before I reached the end

[EEGator]

Cocaine during the day, Ambien, cocktails, and melatonin at night...

[SpaceBar]

They should do a study why people who do government studies are so stupid.

[xp38]

Ah the Rick James prescription!

[TermLimits4All]

Melatonin was mentioned as an alternative to the prescription sleep aids.
I take a 1mg melatonin most nights. Just enough to get me to sleep.

[KittyKares]

I never heard of relora. I just looked it up and read that:

“The active ingredients of Relora, especially the Magnolia officinalis bark have been shown to have properties (6) that act in a similar way to benzodiazepines.”

I wonder if that would have the same kind of dementia risk as the benzodiazepines.

Source:
https://www.restartmed.com/relora/

[Mark17]

They should do a study why people who do government studies are so stupid.

Yes, they should.

[Magic Fingers]

I wonder how those meds stack up against the effect of chronic lack of sleep on developing cognitive disorders?

[Dr. Sivana]

White participants who "often" or "almost always" took sleep medications had a 79% higher chance of developing dementia compared to those who "never" or "rarely" used them.

You cannot make that conclusion. Those who take sleep meidcations are much more likely to have a pre-existing sleep than those who do not take sleep medications. The condition that causes the sleeplessness is just as likewly to blame for a predisposition to dementia than use of the medication itself.