Sleeping For Too Long Might Up Your Dementia Risk, Study Finds

huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Both too much and too little sleep may have negative effects.

Dementia researchers have known for a while that sleep changes appear to be associated with Alzheimer’s risk, though it can be very hard to work out whether the condition causes the symptom or vice versa. It may be a mix of both. 

Whatever the connection, a previous study showed that older people who got fewer than five hours of sleep a night were about twice as likely to develop dementia over five years than those who got six to nine hours’ shut-eye.

However, a new study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia sought to find out why longer sleep duration seems to up our risk too.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sleep-length-dementia-risk_uk_6a5dd522e4b0252a18ddb063

Too much or too little? Golly. I shall have to lie awake all night trying to find the happy medium.

Never slept for more than 3 to 4 hours. At 85 Memory not great now, but no sign of dementia, so far...

I have been keeping a sleep log for a few years and most nights I get between 6 and 9 hours sleep. I go to be when I feel sleepy and don't use an alarm clock so tend to wake up naturally. I think I get the correct amount of sleep my body desires.

i noticed victims of dementia spent a lot of time watching TV so keep it short

I get 9-10 hours every night. Mostly that seems sufficient. I don't even get up to pee.

However, I also take 23 nutritional supplements and 10mg of Lithium orotate for protection from dementia. https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/lithium-linked-with-reduced-dementia-risk/

Of course, these studies were only done on mice. Without lithium, they always forgot the car keys! (What were we talking about?)

Too much or too little.

You need "just right".

That'll be $200. 😄