Posted on 04/22/2023 9:30:35 AM PDT by bitt
Summary: Suvorexant, a dual orexin receptor antagonist commonly prescribed to help treat insomnia reduced levels of the Alzheimer’s-associated amyloid beta protein in the brain. The findings hint that the sleep medication could slow or stop Alzheimer’s disease, but researchers say more research is needed to confirm the viability of the approach.
Source: WUSTL
Sleep disturbances can be an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease. Many people eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer’s start experiencing difficulty falling and staying asleep years before cognitive problems such as memory loss and confusion emerge. It’s a vicious cycle: Alzheimer’s disease involves changes to the brain that disrupt sleep, and poor sleep accelerates harmful changes to the brain.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a possible way to help break that cycle. A small, two-night study has shown that people who took a sleeping pill before bed experienced a drop in the levels of key Alzheimer’s proteins — a good sign, since higher levels of such proteins tracks with worsening disease.
(Excerpt) Read more at neurosciencenews.com ...
also, see this
(but below, there are articles asking if they cause Alzheimer’s, ...)
Take enough sleeping pills and they will definitely stop the Alzheimers.
“… A small, two-night study has shown that people who took a sleeping pill before bed experienced a drop in the levels of key Alzheimer’s proteins…”
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A “small, two-night study”? Hell, that’s certainly enough to wrap our long term health care around. /sarc
It's on the internet. It must be true!
Bkm
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