Alzheimer can spread it roots if you lose even one night's sleep
Disruption in one night's sleep can lead to getting Alzheimer's disease, a recent study has stated.
The interruption in the sound sleep for a single night aggravates the level of tau protein in any young male's body, thus gives rise to the chances of developing the disease.
Our study focuses on the fact that even in young, healthy individuals, missing one night of sleep increases the level of tau in blood suggesting that over time, such sleep deprivation could possibly have detrimental effects, says study's author, a neurologist.
As defined by the Alzheimer's Association, tau is the name of a protein that helps in stabilising the internal structure of the brain's nerve cells. An abnormal build-up of tau protein in the body can end up in causing interior cells to fall apart and eventually developing Alzheimer's.
When you get more of that deep sleep and you get the REM sleep in the normal amounts, that improves clearance of abnormal proteins which we think is good, said another neurologist, who was not a study author.
Earlier studies have also shown that getting deprived of sleep can allow higher tau development and accumulation. Thus that poor sleep can hasten the development of cognitive issues.
Researcherrs caution that the study is small and inconclusive, and acknowledged they were not able to determine what the increased levels might mean.
This study raises more questions than answers, agreed a researcher. What this is telling us is that we have to dig more deeply. Despite something we do for a third of our lives, we know so little about sleep and we're learning every day, particularly when it comes to sleep and dementia.
The interruption in the sound sleep for a single night aggravates the level of tau protein in any young male's body, thus gives rise to the chances of developing the disease.
Our study focuses on the fact that even in young, healthy individuals, missing one night of sleep increases the level of tau in blood suggesting that over time, such sleep deprivation could possibly have detrimental effects, says study's author, a neurologist.
As defined by the Alzheimer's Association, tau is the name of a protein that helps in stabilising the internal structure of the brain's nerve cells. An abnormal build-up of tau protein in the body can end up in causing interior cells to fall apart and eventually developing Alzheimer's.
When you get more of that deep sleep and you get the REM sleep in the normal amounts, that improves clearance of abnormal proteins which we think is good, said another neurologist, who was not a study author.
Earlier studies have also shown that getting deprived of sleep can allow higher tau development and accumulation. Thus that poor sleep can hasten the development of cognitive issues.
Researcherrs caution that the study is small and inconclusive, and acknowledged they were not able to determine what the increased levels might mean.
This study raises more questions than answers, agreed a researcher. What this is telling us is that we have to dig more deeply. Despite something we do for a third of our lives, we know so little about sleep and we're learning every day, particularly when it comes to sleep and dementia.