Association of the Sleep Regularity Index With Incident Dementia and Brain Volume | Neurology
While scouring some of the week's most interesting new research digest I came across this great piece in a major neurology journal. It hits a little bit of a raw nerve as 1 of the 2024 new years resolution at our household has been to be more diligent about sleep schedule, both the duration, quality, but also trying to have it as consistent as our life's demands allow. The latter can be a little tricky with puppy schedule, work conferences and other demands that are a bit out of our control.
When considering the 4 pillars of health (nutrition, movement, stress, sleep/rest), it still seems like stress and sleep are considered the "softer variables" of general health, when in reality they need to be taken with the same degree of seriousness. Sleep is 1 of those areas of our life where it's easy to cut corners and think we will not deal with any real consequence. As this article suggests, that may not be the case, with some rather serious chronic stress on the central nervous system that will manifest with a much higher risk of dementia.
Sleep is a complicated topic, and poor sleep can be very difficult to troubleshoot. For starters, however, we can all commit to a routine that involves a consistent bedtime and wake up time most days out of the week, as an easy step in the right direction. ( photo image courtesy of Freepik)
