Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Disrupting the sleep cycle leads to brain changes that may cause learning & memory loss associated with Alzheimer's.
Loading…
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Disrupting the sleep cycle leads to brain changes that may cause learning & memory loss associated with Alzheimer's.
Every Sunday: the week’s new conflicts and verdict changes — and nothing else.
Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
which is that Alzheimer's disease attacks the deep-sleep-generating regions and you have a diminution of deep sleep, which, in turn, blunts your learning and memory abilities and you become more forgetful.
The more beta amyloid that builds up in this central frontal part of the brain, the less the deep sleep that you have. The less amyloid-related deep sleep that you had, the more forgetful you were the next day rather than the more that you remembered.
this was the first part of the alzheimer's sleep equation which is that alzheimer's disease attacks the deep sleep generating regions and you have a diminution of deep sleep which in turn blunts your learning and memory abilities and you become more forgetful