Preventing the Aging Diseases
The importance of sleep
Sleep enhances our ability to focus, learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It is critical for everyone at all stages of life.
Preventing the Aging Diseases
Too little sleep affects overall health
Insufficient or disrupted sleep leads to multiple adverse health effects that can impact brain health, including:
– Obesity
– Diabetes
– Heart disease
– Increased inflammation
– Weakened immune system
Preventing the Aging Diseases
Sleep is vital for metabolic health
One of the most fundamental roles of sleep is to help us solidify and consolidate memories.
Too little sleep or disrupted sleep has profound implications on many aspects of cognition, including our ability to learn, focus, form memories, and engage in effective decision making.
Preventing the Aging Diseases
Your brain’s nightly cleaning crew
Our glymphatic system, comprised of glial cells, acts as a waste disposal system for our brains and plays an important role in clearing toxins, including beta-amyloid.
Evidence demonstrates that our glymphatic system functions most effectively, increasing toxic clearance by ten to twenty fold, during deep sleep. During deep sleep, glial cells shrink as much as 60%, allowing a thorough cleansing and removal of toxic debris. Even losing one night of sleep dramatically reduces beta-amyloid clearance.
