{"id":214255,"date":"2025-05-18T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/one-stage-of-sleep-seems-critical-for-reducing-risk-of-dementia"},"modified":"2025-05-18T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T18:04:10","slug":"one-stage-of-sleep-seems-critical-for-reducing-risk-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/one-stage-of-sleep-seems-critical-for-reducing-risk-of-dementia","title":{"rendered":"One Stage of Sleep Seems Critical For Reducing Risk of Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-stage-of-sleep-seems-critical-for-reducing-risk-of-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The risk of getting dementia may go up as you get older if you don\u2019t get enough slow-wave sleep.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 study found that over-60s are 27 percent more likely to develop dementia if they lose just 1 percent of this deep sleep each year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleepfoundation.org\/stages-of-sleep\/slow-wave-sleep\">Slow-wave sleep<\/a> is the third stage of a human 90-minute sleep cycle, lasting about 20\u201340 minutes. It\u2019s the most restful stage, where brain waves and heart rate slow and blood pressure drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of getting dementia may go up as you get older if you don\u2019t get enough slow-wave sleep. A 2023 study found that over-60s are 27 percent more likely to develop dementia if they lose just 1 percent of this deep sleep each year. Slow-wave sleep is the third stage of a human 90-minute [\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-214255","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\/214255","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=214255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}