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Restorative, sedative-free slumber can ward off mental and physical ailments.
http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/04/05/deep-sleep-aging/
As we grow old, our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of wakefulness, bathroom trips and other nuisances as we lose our ability to generate the deep, restorative slumber we enjoyed in youth.
But does that mean older people just need less sleep?
Not according to UC Berkeley researchers, who argue in an article published April 5 in the journal Neuron that the unmet sleep needs of the elderly elevate their risk of memory loss and a wide range of mental and physical disorders.
"Nearly every disease killing us in later life has a causal link to lack of sleep," said the article's senior author, Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience. "We've done a good job of extending life span, but a poor job of extending our health span. We now see sleep, and improving sleep, as a new pathway for helping remedy that."
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Bryce A. Mander, Joseph R. Winer, Matthew P. Walker. Sleep and Human Aging. Neuron DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.02.004
[Ed note. (martyb)] I've certainly noticed that I do not sleep as soundly as I used to — I rarely sleep through an entire night. On the other hand, there is a body of evidence for divided/segmented sleep. How has your sleeping fared as you have gotten older?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday April 11 2017, @03:05PM
I'm curious how the 2010s mythology of vision tint fits in with the deployment of color TV in the 60s or so. And pr0n, because everything's better with pr0n.
Suddenly people went from reddish yellow incandescent bulbs to B+W TV (should be no tint thus no effect) to suddenly staring into vibrant colors before sleeping around the 60s. That should show up in stats. Imagine staring into blue cop show uniforms for an hour then supposedly sleep should be impossible...
Also VCR in the 80s results in the pr0n revolution and people can watch mostly non-blue skin so theoretically all that sorta pink-ish skin tone before sleep should show up in stats.
It should be possible to take video cassette sales by year and use archive.org and some torrent sites to calculate an average tint of TV viewing and then draw some conclusions vs historical data.
Personally I'd be inclined to think tint is right up there with biorhythms. Anyone else remember those? That was an early 80s home computer astrological thing that was perfect to show off your computer's MSBASIC amazing math abilities, yet, fundamentally, was a joke. If I can't sleep I'll find an excuse no matter how ridiculous about Mars rising in Taurus today or some numerology and if I can sleep you'll never hear any theories at all because I'll be chill therefore all we have is "color-ology" and biorhythms and astrology and stuff.