2023-04-25 23:50:17
Although many mysteries persist around Alzheimer’s disease, researchers are sufficiently convinced of the relationship between lack of sleep and the worsening of the disease to multiply studies on the subject.
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Published on March 8, 2023 in the magazine Annals of Neurologyone of them made an interesting discovery, reports Science alert.
The study showed that using sleeping pills for sleep might reduce the buildup of toxic protein clumps in the fluid that cleanses the brain each night.
The small study lasted only two nights. It involved 38 participants.
By administering suvorexant, which is a common treatment for insomnia, to the participants, the researchers found that they experienced a slight drop in two proteins, beta-amyloid and tau protein, which accumulate in the setting of Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers believe that promoting sleep might be a way to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, by allowing the sleeping brain to get rid of leftover proteins and other waste products from the day.
While sleeping pills can be helpful in this regard, “it would be premature for people worried regarding developing Alzheimer’s disease to interpret this as a reason to start taking suvorexant every night,” said the neurologist Brendan Lucey, of the University of Washington Center for Sleep Medicine, who led the research.
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