What's the connection between sleep and Alzheimer's disease? | Sleeping with Science, a TED series

Does not getting enough sleep lead to Alzheimer's disease? Sleep scientist Matt Walker explains the relationship between the two -- and how researchers are exploring how to use sleep to decrease our chances of developing this condition.

[zedizdead]

Such clear diction and delivery of information! Great job

[xTruncz]

Sleep is a blessing. Unfortuantely many people, like myself, are not entitled to that blessing. Please be respectful.

[brentcjohnson]

The things they don’t teach you in high school.

[victorycall]

I am pushing 50 and in perimenopause and sleep isn't easy or natural for me. What I've started doing is giving myself 8 solid hours of "sleeportunity" each night. I lie quietly in darkness, I use an eye cover, and if sleep doesn't happen then I lie quietly thinking pleasant thoughts. Dr. Andrew Huberman suggested during one of his podcasts that regeneration of certain neurotransmitters or hormones may be triggered by phases of extended darkness, not by sleep itself. For several months I've been following a standard bedtime with 8 hours of lying in darkness, and I feel great. I now believe that the traditional advice "get up and do something else if you can't sleep" is terrible advice. Perhaps I'm still missing out on the optimum amount of deep sleep, but if my brain wants to sleep I'm giving it the opportunity. It's straightforward and doesn't cost anything and I plan to continue to spend 8 hours a night this way for the long term.

[thelastcube.]

"Could we go from sick care to actually health care?"

That was brilliantly put.

[MinutePsychology]

The guy: the Alzheimer’s correlates with insomnia
People with insomnia: ok, great!

[pranavlimaye]

I'm really enjoying this series :D

[BeyonLimits]

Hmm, on that note, am off to bed. - Thanks for the advice.

[OleensEmbroidery]

My brother used to tease me about how much I slept saying I was wasting my life to which I replied "Sleeping is living".

[Phlegethon]

Its 12am I was gonna do work but I guess I’ll go sleep

[prakashnt]

thank you so much sir and all the best for research . pls continue this work

[markusd.]

Thank you very much for your insights!

Due to my profession, I had irregular sleep in the past. My father just past away due to Alzheimer. I tend to snore.. This once again reminds me to do even more to prevent Alzheimer in the future.

[healing-waves]

"Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health." -- Dalai Lama
Infinite Love Beautiful Soul! ✨❤

[RL-uedz]

Yes please. Let's try to rid the world of this horrible disease as much as possible 😔

[in]

I’m fucked I barely get 5 hours of sleep

[tomtruett]

Yay! For the glymphatic system! Everybody gotta learn about it!

[michrstian]

Schools after watching this : oh no, anyway...

[aaronedw]

I have a method I have used for many years to achieve deep restorative Delta sleep states for myself. I use binaural acoustic tones and modulated pink noise to cause neural entrainment to lower my neural EEG frequencies down to the restorative DELTA states where the Glymphatic system is activated. I have been using this method since the mid 1990's using a very outdated program ("cool edit") which is now part of adobe audition.
My P.h.D. is in Computer Engineering, so by no means can I claim to be an expert in this subject nor have I published any peer-reviewed studies on this subject. My subjective observations however would indicate that actively modulation of neural frequencies via external entrainment utilizing binaural modulation could have great promise.

[envee]

Cannabis has been shown to decrease REM sleep and increase deep sleep; perhaps it might be beneficial, especially for seniors, to partake a couple hours before bed (to minimize the decrease in REM sleep while retaining a higher duration of deep sleep)

[lisahooper]

True. My husband was first diagnosed with central sleep apnea then young-onset Alzheimer's.