[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Varda]

I've been taking two things which counteract this. One is a 50mg capsule of progesterone (prescription) and the other is melatonin (3mg pill broken in half). Progesterone fixes REM sleep and melatonin helps deep sleep. I never take both together but if I wanted to be out for 9 hours straight I guess I'd try it.

[whatexit]

Berkley? Them being stoned couldn’t have anything to do with it, right? Naw...

[Dr. Sivana]

Slow waves are generated by the middle frontal lobe, and as this region deteriorates with age, the elderly tend to lose the ability to experience long REM sleep

So THAT'S where the bladder is located.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

God Help me. I’m going to be completely senile by the age of 55 if this is true. I am a very light sleeper.

[Utah Binger]

Two vodkas at bedtime gives me a solid seven hours.

[Carriage Hill]

"...scientists have found a connection between the amount of sleep one gets in their old age and the quality of their memory. The UC Berkeley team, led by Matthew Walker, believes that forgetfulness in old age may be attributed...

Okay, I give-up. Which is it?

[I want the USA back]

This is a rare study where they seem to get the cause and effect right. Half the time in the “studies” they mix up what caused what.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[the_Watchman]

You can never depend on a news story writer to faithfully convey the full merit of a study. However, the cited experiment would seem to demonstrate correlation, but not necessarily causation.

A good follow-up, which they may very well have done, would seem to be to take these same young folks in the study and see how their short term memory responded to having their REM sleep disturbed.

I also did not see the relationship between the ability to learn and the long term memory loss that I see in myself as I age. In particular, my memory problems relate to searching my long term memory. I have trouble recalling names of people, objects, and concepts. This study seemed to focus on processing short term memory.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Didn’t I read about this yesterday...? Maybe not...I don’t know...

[Free Vulcan]

A bottle of wine or a few beers will get ya some good REM sleep too.

[Bigg Red]

Interesting.

Yeah, I sure do miss good, deep sleep now that I am a senior. Was a time, I could sleep through a very loud alarm clock. Now, I do not even need one.

[Jack Hammer]

The article is interesting from two viewpoints, first....

uh....

yawn...

Oh, never mind.

[Gene Eric]

Adhering to the Earth clock is probably the biggest problem.