sleep and tiredness are following habitual patterns. you can train yourself to be tired at a certain time. take a power nap and you are good for many hours to come. you have to train power basis, too, though.
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Hmm if you weren’t working 18 hours a day you may not want to nap. Quit work=no alzheimers.?
For another theory see:
http://www.maverickexperiments.com/surfactants.html
If you don't plan your retirement and aging needs who will?
The Federal Deficit Reduction Act provided for every state to have a Partnership program to provide asset protection for those who buy qualified long term care insurance policies. https://www.partnershipforlongtermcare.com
An alternative are linked products, Life Insurance or Annuities with long term care riders. In most states you can also use your qualified money (IRA/401k) to fund your plan. https://www.lifeinsuranceltc.com
Jonathan Pond, Financial Planner, says that 90% of estates are spent this way: 1) nursing home 2) IRS 3) children 4) grandchildren 5) charity
Most of my life I have been sleepy around 3-3:30 p.m. almost every day. Also, I have never been good at remembering names, but never forget a face even years later. Sometimes a persons gesture or tone of voice reminds me of who they are even if their face has changed due to age. At age 76 I seem to be doing well, except for knee arthritis. My goal is to have people comment..."That tough old cow. is she still around"? I am an artist with much left to do.
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I never used to sleep or fall asleep while working but I have been sleeping daily for one hour in the afternoon after my retirement in December 2006 and I don’t have Alzheimer’s though I occasionally tend to forget as is the case with everyone.
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Maybe it's just my Alzheimer's (kidding), but I find this statement to be ambiguous: "...compared with people who reported no daytime sleepiness, those who did had almost three times the risk of having plaques. Frequent napping, on the other hand, was not associated with plaque accumulation."
This implies that people that frequently nap feel no daytime sleepiness. Why would they nap if they don't feel sleepy?
Thank you, but I wouldn't trade my 15-minute after-lunch nap for anything.
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@gaaah thank you! I was just about to you in the same thing.
This is a very poorly written article, and the statements are unnecessarily alarming. Shame on the NYT.
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"....observational study that does not prove cause and effect..." suggests that a lot more work needs to be done before anything is clear. What other things did they observe? Live in a two story home, live east of the Mississippi, prefer Dunkin' Donuts to Starbucks.......
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I suggest that this is a case of Alzheimer's pathology facilitated by lack of sleep. It is interesting that many of the medications prescribed to improve sleep have been implicated in increased Alzheimer's risk. There are more beneficial and less beneficial types of sleep but we need more study data.
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Well said. Sleep is key and so many are continuously deprived of it. Recharge the battery while back-washing away those pesky plaques.
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@Emergence
Yes, there is evidence of a correlation between lack of sleep and development of Alzheimer’s and between anticholinergic effects of drugs and Alzheimer’s; Benadryl, for example, that is used in OTC sleep aids, has anticholinergic effects.
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