{"id":212413,"date":"2025-04-25T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/study-finds-common-sleeping-pill-could-help-prevent-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:08:02","slug":"study-finds-common-sleeping-pill-could-help-prevent-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/study-finds-common-sleeping-pill-could-help-prevent-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Study finds common sleeping pill could help prevent Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-common-sleeping-pill-could-help-prevent-alzheimers-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) \u2014 A commonly prescribed sleeping pill could be a powerful tool in preventing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, according to recently published research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/ana.26641\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/ana.26641\" class=\"\">The study<\/a>, published in<em> Annals of Neurology<\/em>, was born from the long-standing scientific belief that poor sleep increases a person\u2019s risk of Alzheimer\u2019s. This belief came from the fact that sleep clears out wasteful proteins like amyloid-beta and tau, which Alzheimer\u2019s patients often have a high build up of.<\/p>\n<p>The study examined suvorexant, a sleeping pill regularly prescribed for insomnia, and observed its effects on clearing those waste proteins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) \u2014 A commonly prescribed sleeping pill could be a powerful tool in preventing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, according to recently published research. The study, published in Annals of Neurology, was born from the long-standing scientific belief that poor sleep increases a person\u2019s risk of Alzheimer\u2019s. This belief came from the fact that sleep clears out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}