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News Topical, Digital Desk : Dementia: As we age, our brains also begin to weaken. Memory, focus, and problem-solving abilities are affected by aging. This is considered a natural part of aging, but poor lifestyle habits can cause premature aging.
Experts warn that lack of sleep can increase the risk of serious diseases like dementia in the long term. So, today we'll explain how our brains are aging prematurely.
Lack of sleep is the biggest cause.
A recent study revealed that lack of sleep is a major cause of premature brain aging. Sleep provides the brain with the opportunity to protect and repair itself. Not getting adequate or adequate sleep increases chronic inflammation in the body, which directly affects brain cells, i.e., neurons. Prolonged poor sleep damages brain cells and accelerates brain aging. Research on brain aging examined over 27,000 people and estimated their brain age through brain scans. In this study, people who slept neither too little nor enough sleep were found to have brains approximately 0.6 years older than their actual age. Those who never slept enough were found to have brains approximately 1 year older than their actual age. Furthermore, researchers also developed a sleep score. Each decrease in this score increases brain age by approximately half a year.
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