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Deep, Restorative Sleep Could Be Your Best Preventive for Alzheimer’s

Getting more restorative, deep sleep could ward off Alzheimer’s disease in your later years. Alzheimer’s affects more than 40 million people worldwide with no cure in sight. But new research from the University of California Berkeley suggests one defense against this virulent form of dementia is plenty of deep, restorative sleep. Researchers were able to match the overnight sleep quality of 32 healthy older adults against the buildup in their brains of the toxic plaque known as...