05/31/2020
One of the easiest ways to stay healthy is to have good sleep habits.
A study published this year in Neurology found that even just one night of poor-quality sleep in healthy, young men increased the levels of a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease.
A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had higher levels of tau -- a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease -- in their blood than when they had a full, uninterrupted night of rest.