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Sure, but what causes the amyloid beta? Recent research shows that lack of sleep increases both amyloid beta and tau. One of them increases after a single bad
by Mz 9y ago
Sure, but what causes the amyloid beta?
Recent research shows that lack of sleep increases both amyloid beta and tau. One of them increases after a single bad night. The other takes a few days of too little sleep to start spiking.
There may be other factors, but the research suggests we need to work on sleep hygiene for at risk populations. This is a non drug intervention that I can wholly get behind.
- trendia 9y agoI found a study to back this up [0] > "Spinal taps showed that the more deep sleep people missed out on, the higher their levels of A-beta in the morning. Tau levels didn’t budge because of just one night of slow-wave sleep disruption, but people whose activity monitors indicated they had slept poorly the week before the test also had higher levels of that protein." https://www.sciencenews.org/article/just-one-night-poor-sleep-can-boost-alzheimers-beta-proteins https://www.sciencenews.org/article/just-one-night-poor-slee...