Getting Alzheimer's is a dreadful prospect and something many people can do to avoid it.
Eating better and taking care of your health is the first step, but also realizing how you sleep can be beneficial.
Sleeping somewhere helps reduce the risk of dementia, research has found.
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Sleep expert Marwan Amini said: “Sleeping on the side has been found to be the most beneficial area for your brain, where it helps your brain to get rid of junk faster than other areas.
"This leads to many benefits including reducing the risk of developing neurological disorders such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's."
Sleeping on the side is often regarded as a very healthy sleeping area - this is because it provides good support for your spine while reducing acid reflux.
An expert from Everynight.com also unveiled the worst place to sleep for the rest of your life - with your stomach.
They said it could lead to muscle and joint stiffness, stiffness, back, and neck.
Researchers at Stony Brook University have found sleeping on your side is the most effective way to remove brain debris.
Drs. Helene Benveniste said: “It is interesting that the rear sleeping area is already very popular with many people and animals - even in the wild - and it seems that we have adapted the rear sleeping area to clean our brains more effectively. metabolic waste products that form during waking hours.
This study, therefore, adds further support to the idea that sleep regulates the different functions of sleep organisms and that it ‘cleanses’ the accumulated pollutants when we are awake.
“Many types of dementia are related to sleep disorders, including sleep disorders.
“It is increasingly acknowledged that these sleep disorders can speed up memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease.
"Our findings bring new insights into this topic by showing how important it is and in what position you sleep."
This condition affects one in six people over the age of 80 and it is estimated that approximately 850,000 people in total suffer in the UK alone.
Symptoms of the disease are the formation of amyloid-beta proteins in the brain, which cause plaque.
Plaque results in loss of communication between nerve cells in the brain - and ultimately the death of those cells and the loss of brain tissue.
Those with Alzheimer’s also have a deficiency of essential chemicals in the brain, which help to transmit messages.
Lack of these chemicals means that the brain cannot process certain messages the way it did in the past.
The story appeared in The Sun and was reproduced here with permission.
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