Martini Pundit » sleep http://www.martinipundit.com Opinions Shaken not Stirred Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:52:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Sleep: A Preventative Role in Alzheimer's Disease? http://www.martinipundit.com/health-and-fitness/sleep-a-curative-agent-in-preventing-alzheimers-disease http://www.martinipundit.com/health-and-fitness/sleep-a-curative-agent-in-preventing-alzheimers-disease#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:58:24 +0000 admin http://www.martinipundit.com/?p=34 Did you know that 35 million people globally will suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in 2010? I didn’t either, and I’m sure that you’ll agree that that is far too many people to be heading down that no U-turn lane. As a chiropractor I often recommend certain lifestyle changes, such as exercising the mind and body, that can often help individuals slow down the process of dementia or to avoid the disease completely. I am always interested in any non-drug remedy for the diseases that seem to plague humankind, so I was particularly interested in the findings, reported in the journal, Science, link sleep with the development of Alzheimer’s.

A study of mice conducted by researchers at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis researcher, suggests that lack of sleep may play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

Though researchers have found for years that many treatments that have shown promise in mice have had little effect on humans with Alzheimer’s, a study of the levels of amyloid beta (a protein that accumulates in the brain of people with Alzheimer’s) seems to hold promise.

Sleep — getting enough is such a wonderful, natural, curative solution to so many health issues!

For more on this interesting study and its possibilities, go to: reuters.com

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